Re: Rational Updater

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/08/2006 04:35:59 PM:

> I would love this.  I find the instructions on doing a local install 
great 
> until you find that you have to set up a the XML policy file.  Then 
things 
> seem muddy to me.  RSDP Updater still wants to go out and check the 
> Internet for updates.  I'm sure I'm just overlooking something simple.

I posted details on how to setup a local update site, which I think is the 
easiest and best way to do this if you have more than one client:

http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200602/msg00378.html

The great thing about this technique is that you do not need to know where 
the updates are located, it just find them via the same mechanism as the 
product updater.  It also creates the policy.xml file for you.

The one big negative to this technique is that since it is mirroring the 
update site you have to mirror down a lot of updates that you already 
applied and otherwise no longer need (unless you setup a new PC).  I just 
did this and having this all available locally made it a lot more 
manageable.

Mark




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