[Xdreams] Software Update that WORKS

[W Lane]

On Jan 3, 2005, at 08:12, Bill Planey wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am hoping for a better Software Update preference pane, one that 
> actually
> shows the truly uninstalled updates.

SU already does this, in the form of 'ignored updates', no?

>  I almost never use SU to do the actual
> updating - I usually download a stand-alone installer, sometimes with 
> SU
> downloading to the desktop.
>
> For example, I know that I installed Java 1.4.2 update 2 in two 
> different
> ways: 1) with the standalone installer when issued and 2) I updated to
> 10.3.7 with the combo updater, which was supposed to include all the 
> recent
> security patches  (or am I wrong to assume the Java update would have 
> been
> rolled into this?)

Why would you install something twice?

>
> A truly functional SU would actually scan the system to see what the 
> current
> live system has or needs to have.

It does.

>   I believe the current SU looks to the
> packages that are stored somewhere in the Library and these packages 
> are
> somehow only the ones that SU has handled.

Actually, it checks for the receipts

>
> Apple should either make its own installers place the markers 
> (packages)
> that SU looks for during their process, or have SU survey the system 
> itself.
>
> Bill Planey