Directing to internal update server via overrides file

Question

Hi all,
I have my internal update server up and running, and am now working on creating an AAMEE built .pkg installer for my organization. One of my goals is to use an internal update server, as defined by an override file indicated during the AAMEE build.  I've read over the AAMEE Guide V3.0 pg 121-122 a few times, but I'm still having trouble translating the example code to my world.
I'm having trouble translating 2 things:
1) in the example, it's --root="/serverroot/updates/Adobe/CS"  This does not mirror the serverroot of my AUSST folder hierarchy. I have /serverroot/updates/oobe .  Should this concern me?
2) similar issue with --url="http://serverabc.example.com:1234/Adobe/CS".  In my serverroot, there are 2 folders: updates and webfeed.
What's the bottom line goal of the overrides file- to point at the /documentroot/oobe/aam[1|2]0/[mac|win]/updaterfeed.xml file?  Did I totally just make that up?

Answer 1

Hi Syuroff,
     In this case, you should use the root as /Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates/updates/oobe and the url you need to specify should point to this location. For example if http://serverx:8080 points to /Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates then you need to specify the url as http://serverx:8080/updates/oobe. If you allow directory browsing, then you can verify that the URL http://serverx:8080/updates/oobe points to /Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates/updates/oobe. Once you ensure this, you have to run
AdobeUpdateServerSetupToolCS5 --root="/Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates/updates/oobe"
and select appropriate option to sync with Adobe Update Server. Once this step is completed, you will see two folders namely updates and webfeed created under /Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates/updates/oobe location. Now you can run another command to generate the client config file:
AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool2.0  --genclientconf="/Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates/updates/oobe/config"
                                                       --root="/Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates/updates/oobe"
                                                       --url="http://serverx:8080/updates/oobe"
As mentioned in my earlier post, this command will create a folder named config under /Volumes/Drive2/AUSST_Updates/updates/oobe/config
location. This folder will contain all the override files for both Mac and Windows.
Let me know if this answers your query.
Thanks,
Abhishek | [email protected]