[X4U] Where da Leopard "Packages" go?

[Brett Conlon]

Thanks Tim & John,

But I'm still confused.... in  Software update I had the 10.5.1  
update, Epson drivers update and I think QuickTime update showing in  
the list. I always choose "Install and Keep Package" from the Update  
menu so I can store the downloaded .pkg file, but after the install  
ran and the Mac rebooted I couldn't find the downloaded files.

I looked in Receipts and in the Updates folder, in case that's where  
Apple now decided to put them, but in Receipts there were only  
smallish files (48K to 8MB) which only appeared to be receipts. I'm  
expecting to see something 110MB in size for the MacOS update. There  
doesn't even seem to be a clear receipt for the MacOS update. In the  
Updates folder is a 4K file "index.plist".

In my User's Receipts folder is only Adobe log install files.

In the Lib/Receipts/boms folder it's the same story, smallish files  
(except the Xerox drivers is 31.6MB - sheesh).

The a.receiptdb file is 238.6MB - I'm guessing it stores data for all  
installs you've made, correct?

So, did the large MacOS downloaded installer perhaps break apart into  
the smaller package files maybe? Unfortunately I don't visually know  
what the state of my Receipts folder looked like prior to running the  
update. But this is still confusing as the Epson drivers has possibly  
created the file "com.apple.pkg.EpsonPrinterDrivers.bom" (6.2MB) and  
"com.apple.pkg.EPSON_LaserPrinterWW.bom" (840K) but there is no other  
pkg file for Epson drivers (even tho I stipulated to keep it).

Cheers,

Coj

ps. I also noticed when doing this last update that Leopard requested  
all apps be quit, then the whole screen went blue and the updates THEN  
seemed to download from the net and run. Is it the new procedure that  
software updates will run without interruption? With Tiger/Panther you  
could let Software Update do its thing in the background while surfing  
the net/burning a disc/reading mail etc. and it would then bounce in  
the dock requesting you restart. It was your choice if you wanted to  
restart then or later.


On 21/11/2007, at 5:56 AM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 11/20/07, Brett Conlon <brettnlis at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just ran (& chose to keep) some updates in Leopard but the Packages
>> folder in the root Library ain't there any more. Is this a new change
>> under Leopard? Where dey go?
>
> As best I can tell, they're saved either in /Library/Receipts (e.g.,  
> iTunes0 or
> /Library/Updates (e.g., Login & Keychain Update). Note that they are  
> the
> installer packages. The information previously stored in each  
> receipt's
> Archive.bom is now in /Library/Receipts/boms and Disk Utility uses
> /Library/Receipts/db/a.receiptdb for permissions repair.