Getting Started with Margarita
Margarita offers a very easy to use interface to Reposado. First we need to create one or more branch. A branch is a custom listing where your clients can be affiliated. Usually we need two branches : One for testing client (lab’s group) and one for all other clients. With this system you can verify the compatibility of a patch with your environment and release it to all your clients later.
– Go to the bottom of Margarita and add two branches named “TESTING” and “RELEASE” as example (eventually you can add a third branch named “REFUSED” for patches with which you have problems) :
– At the top of the page, you’ve two options for adding patches to specific branches. If you want to add all patches at a time, you can select the branch name and click “Add all products”. The second option is to click every software that you want to add by the button “Unlisted” :
– If you choose the second option, the patches are placed in a queue “Listing queue” and you need to validate your selection by pressing “Apply queue changes” at the top. The number of selected patches is shown near the link :
If a patch is removed from the Apple updates, your server will continue to offer it to clients. Margarita will show removed patch as “Deprecated” with the orange flag and you can keep it as long you want. It can be useful when a new update is not working in your environment or when a patch is removed hastily by Apple (like the iPhoto 9.1 update).
I just wanted to say thank you for this tutorial. It’s one the best I’ve seen.
absolutely beautiful howto guide – worked perfectly
also, per the instructions here, i added a .htaccess file to the directory /var/local/reposado/html
with instructions found here:
https://github.com/wdas/reposado/blob/master/docs/URL_rewrites.txt
so as i only needed to put the catalogURL as http://example.com/index.sucatalog on client machines and the apache2 mod_rewrite engine on the reposado box figured out which index to send it to regardless of version of the macosx client
again, thank you for this wonderful page.
Thank you for your information that completes the guide !
I was curious if you have found a way to secure this with .htaccess? I have so far been unsuccessful. Margarita doesn’t respect the the file.
Thanks for this tutorial.
The standard command to configure the client is:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL
failure: repodata/c7c64887b23d8a76ac7d8b0b4a2673a3e832963c948a8700c8647f4fa8bbd339-primary.sqlite.bz2 from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
problem connecting to softer sources
plz help me in this regards
thank u
This is not the correct place to get support. You can get help through the Google Group for Reposado:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/reposado
Brilliant work here…a single run through the setup process on Centos 6.5 resulted in a fully working reposado + margarita configuration.
Thank you for providing such a detailed walkthrough.
I am not familiar with reposado but we have working outdated reposado and just wonder how can I update so the yosemette and elcapitan clients can update from?
Sorry for the delay, but the better way to get support is to contact directly the newsgroups of the projects.
There’s a problem with CentOS Curl and downloading El Capitan updates. (Error 59: Unknown cipher in list: HIGH)
I thought I’d share this fix here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/reposado/_fUl1n3uPq8
I’ve used these directions many times. I’ve never left a comment but these posted directions worked flawless. Thank You!