If you configure Reposado to also download the actual updates as well as the catalogs, you can continue to offer updates that have been superseded by more recent updates. You would set most of your clients to use the 'release' branch catalog, which would contain updates that had been through the testing process. For example, one could create 'testing' and 'release' branches, and then set some clients to use the 'testing' branch catalog to test newly-released updates.

These branches can contain any subset of the available updates. Reposado contains a tool (repo_sync) to download Software Update catalogs and (optionally) update packages from Apple's servers, enabling you to host them from a local web server.Īdditionally, Reposado provides a command-line tool (repoutil) that enables you to create any arbitrary number of 'branches' of the Apple catalogs. Reposado, together with Python, the 'curl' binary tool and a web server such as Apache 2, enables you to host a local Apple Software Update Server on any hardware and OS of your choice. Reposado is licensed under the new BSD license.ĭiscussion for users and developers of Reposado is here.

Reposado is a set of tools written in Python that replicate the key functionality of Mac OS X Server's Software Update Service. This means you cannot use a Reposado server to serve Apple software updates to Big Sur (and presumably later versions of macOS) clients. In macOS Big Sur, Apple has removed the ability for softwareupdate to be pointed to a non-Apple sucatalog.

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