Re: [Radmind-users] Creating new overloads for computer specific Mac OS X builds

[Greg N. <Gre...@di...>]

I take a completely different approach.

My radmind loadsets are very, very modular.
I just build a new OS base and then re-layer everything else:

1) Unbox new machine.
2) Re-install OS X from disks that ship with machine, not adding any  
extra software like iLife; just the basic OS.
3) Install radmind tools.
4) Create a minimal command file containing only the OS negative.
5) Create a transcript/loadset of the installed OS.

Now I make a new command file for the machine, identical to a command  
file for an older machine, but swap out the OS transcript with the one  
I just built.  Run radmind. Test. Ship.

This is the equivalent of the InstaDMG approach, where you modularize  
all your additions/modifications and just install them on top of  
whatever Apple ships.

-Greg

On Nov 20, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Jeremy Reichman wrote:

> I don't do this often, so I was wondering if others had tips for  
> creating
> overloads to accommodate computer specific Mac OS X builds. When I  
> do have
> to do this, it usually must be done in haste so I'd like to improve  
> on my
> process.
>
> Here what I've most recently done to handle a new unibody MacBook Pro:
>
> 1. Leave the installed software as-is, iLife and all.
> 2. Set up the client in the Radmind server's config file, creating a
> certificate if necessary.
> 3. Choose a minimal command file for the client. The config file has  
> my
> normal base OS, negatives, transcripts, and excludes I use for my  
> template
> computers -- but it _adds_ exclude lines for every major directory  
> and file
> for iLife 08. (I intend to upload this to the Radmind wiki.) This  
> appears to
> be the only non-OS software installed on the new MBPs, from quick
> inspection.
> 4. Install the Radmind tools on the client.
> 5. Radmind the command file and the rest of my management tools and  
> scripts
> down to the client, targeting only the directories where they exist.
> 6. Create a new transcript with the current state of the computer.
> 7. Edit the resulting transcript in a text editor to comment out all  
> lines
> starting with "-" so that I don't have dependencies, and run it  
> through my
> normal tclean script to clean up other issues that crop up.
>
> The edited transcript seems to apply cleanly. So far it looks like a  
> stable
> system [knock on wood] with the right build of the OS et. al. It has  
> the new
> Trackpad System Preferences, the Energy Saver icon is a CFL, it  
> shows the
> dual GPUs (one on PCI, the other on PCIe, interestingly).
>
> Any comments/suggestions?
>
>
> -- 
> Jeremy Reichman
>
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