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S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. optimizes the macOS software update experience.
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Upgrading IBM Notifier? #123

Closed jelockwood closed 1 year ago

jelockwood commented 1 year ago

When SUPER is first installed it downloads and installs it's own private copy of IBM Notifier in to -

/Library/Management/super/IBM Notifier.app

As far as I can see whilst this is in a non-standard location it is a standard copy of this app.

I have therefore been perhaps too clever and worked on an AutoPkg recipe for Munki which downloads the latest IBM Notifier from the IBM GitHub repo, wraps it in an installer pkg which installs this latest copy in to the special location used by the SUPER script. I then have Munki check this location for what version is currently there and if needed runs my installer pkg to update it.

My installer pkg does work and does update this locations copy.

However it looks like something else is periodically downgrading it back to version 2.9.1 of IBM Notifier. (The current version at the time I write this is actually 3.0.3.)

Is the SUPER script installing a specific now out of date version each time it runs? Answer - yes it is!

I tested and confirmed this by running the super-starter script and watched it replace version 3.0.3 with 2.9.1 of IBM Notifier.

Is there any particular reason why SUPER wants to use an out of date version?

Macjutsu commented 1 year ago

Two things... First, super v3 was only tested against version 2.9.1 of IBM Notifier. Something else on your system is upgrading it b/c super v3 will always attempt to get IBM Notifier to 2.9.1. That being said... feel free to change the IBM notifier parameters in the setDefaults function if you wish to test a newer version of IBM notifier.

Second, JNUC is next week...

jelockwood commented 1 year ago

Yes as I mentioned I had deliberately built a process using AutoPkg and Munki to upgrade your copy of IBM Notifier and then saw your system was downgrading it back. 🥲

I have now turned mine off since as things stand it is pointless.

Macjutsu commented 1 year ago

FWIW... super v3 should work with the latest versions of IBM Notifier. I'm just not going to test further for super v3.

Macjutsu commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/Macjutsu/super/releases/tag/v4.0.0-beta1