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So I go to install Adobe Reader 9. It has many updates, security and otherwise. Even better, it's an installer package. True, architecture specific, but it's still an installer package, so this should should be cake, right?
BAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
What are you smoking?
See, the Apple Installer Package is just a wrapper for an iNosso "powered" archive. No really, here's a screen shot that someone else kindly took. So it doesn't work via Apple Remote Desktop, it doesn't work via /usr/sbin/installer. It only works...by doubleclicking it and running it manually on every machine, or repackaging it.
My god, it's gone from custom installers that work with nothing to customer installers that work with nothing wrapped in an Apple Installer Package so you think it will work right.
FAIL
Once again, when it comes to making the lives of IT suck, Adobe takes the cake.
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Posted by John C. Welch at 12:23 | Permalink
©2003-until I'm fucking dead and then some. you steal my shit, and I will fuck with you like you were a lonely shepherd's slowest sheep.
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