[Casper] GarageBand Loops..

[John McLaughlin]

Thanks for all of your replies.  I was able to extract the package from
the dvd installer so that wasn't an issue.  In looking within the package,
you'll find both a preflight and postflight perl scripts that take care of
the reindexing.  I wasn't sure how to deal with this since it takes each
argument as it installs and then I saw a shell script posted by Jeff Dyck
on AFP548.com and he rescripted it into shell to use the built-in binary
of Apple's to reindex the loops.  Here is that code.


#! /bin/sh

Indexer="/Library/Receipts/GarageBand_Loops.pkg/Contents/Resources/ALPIndex.app/Contents/MacOS/ALPIndex"

rm -rf /Library/Audio/Apple\ Loops\ Index/*
$Indexer "/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/"
$Indexer "/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for GarageBand/"




clinton.blackmore <[ mailto:clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca
]clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca> writes:

I believe this will work for you; I'm not in a position to do a proper
test.

Go to software update on a machine with Casper Admin on it that does not
have the Garageband update installed.  Go to software update, be sure that
the Garag e Band Instruments And Apple Loops is the only item with a check
mark in front of it, and, from the menu, choose Update -> Download only.

When it is done, you will have a "~/Downloads/GarageBand Instruments and
Apple Loops" folder, which in turn contains a "Packages" folder.  This one
only has one package (the iTunes update, for comparison, has four
packages).  You should be able to simply drag the
"GarageBandExtraContent.pkg" file into Casper Admin and deploy it.

I'd be interested to know if it works. &nbs p;I have deployed packages
straight from other sources (esp. printer installers), and it usually
works without a hitch -- the only problem you run into is when you have a
special .pkg file that doesn't contain the files, but points to them.
 Such a .pkg is usually fairly small (<150 Kb), and you are most likely to
run into it on an OS install disk. This garageband extra content package
is 1.12 Gb, so there is every reason to think it'll work.

The advantage of this over building a package is that it will have the
correct pre- and post-install scripts with it.

Cheers,
Clinton Blackmore



On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:10:45 -0400, "John McLaughlin" <[
mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us ]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us>
wrote:
> I'd like to allow users to install Gara geBand's Additional Instruments
and
> Loops '08.  I can't seem to create a Self Service policy for
> GarageBandExtraContent.pkg for users without resorting to utilizing SUS. 
> There appears to be preflight and postflight install Perl scripts within
> the package that are not updating the GB registry.  Has anyone had any
> luck with either getting this to work or recreating the package and
> updating the GB registry?
 > 
> 
> John McLaughlin
> Technical Support Specialist
> Newton Public Schools
> 
> 
> 

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