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macOS Catalina Patcher (http://dosdude1.com/catalina)
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Catalina Patcher not downloading latest Catalina #214

Open sschuang opened 2 years ago

sschuang commented 2 years ago

Steps to reproduce: Download latest Catalina installer from within the Catalina Patcher 1.4.7. I did this today Sept 22 2022.

uname -v Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Thu Oct 29 22:56:45 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.141.2.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64

This is 19H15 from Nov 2020, instead of 19H2026 from July 2022.

In System Report-Software-Installations, I only see the security updates up to 2020-001. image

It seems we are missing all the security patches since then? Would someone be kind enough to fix please.

sschuang commented 2 years ago

Just in case I forgot to use the new installer, I downloaded the patcher a few days ago, used it to download catalina and made a bootable USB drive.

Looking inside it, /Install MacOS Catalina.app/Contents/versions.plist I see the following

CFBundleShortVersionString 
    <string>15.7.03</string>

This doesn't look like the latest installer so I'm not going to spend the hours reinstalling Catalina on my MBP 2011. Someone, please let me know if I'm mistaken, or can we please fix this? The only reason some of us patch Catalina is to try to stay more current on security patches.

dosdude1 commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately, 15.7.03 is the latest installer available from Apple. They never updated the full installer with the latest security updates.

sschuang commented 2 years ago

Thanks Dosdude1 for this and for your great work on the patcher.

Does anyone know how I can patch up? The latest patch says my Mac is not compatible and I'm wondering whether to spend more time trying to hack it to install.

And even if I am successful, I wonder if it will work out. I guessing I need to apply dosdude1's post install patches.

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