Closed grahampugh closed 3 years ago
The direct download link appears to be pointing to a specific version:
https://officecdn-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/pr/C1297A47-86C4-4C1F-97FA-950631F94777/MacAutoupdate/Microsoft_Remote_Desktop_10.6.1_installer.pkg
The problem I foresee is that once the next MRD version drops, this link will also be out of date and I'll have to revisit the recipe to edit it again. If you have a solution for this issue, I'd be interested in it.
Yes, it depends if that link is being maintained better than the fwlink :) Probably worth leaving and keeping an eye on, but a processor to scrape the XML would be the only sane replacement, I guess.
Thanks to your recipe design, I've been able to temporarily override the URL by adding --key DOWNLOADURL=https://officecdn-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/pr/C1297A47-86C4-4C1F-97FA-950631F94777/MacAutoupdate/Microsoft_Remote_Desktop_10.6.1_installer.pkg
I notice that the fwlink for the MRD recipe is currently pointing to an older version than the current. From a Slack search, it seems the link has to be manually updated and so can get out of date.
This seems to have prompted a change to the macadmins.software, which now has the
download
link as a direct Akamai link with a separate key forfwlink
.Perhaps (and only perhaps) it's worth updating the recipe to point to the direct link rather than using the
fwlink
?