In a previous post on deploying Xcode components, I showed how the iOS Simulators are defined in a metadata file used by Apple, called dvtdownloadableindex, which is a binary plist containing information about all the “Components” available in the Downloads preference area. What’s useful about this file is that it describes in a human-readable way [...]
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New utility: XProtect Packager
February 11, 2013
Roughly a week after the first widespread panic with the XProtect mechanism disabling Java on OS X, the same thing happened with the Flash plugin, with Apple issuing a definition update blocking all old versions about 3 hours after the latest Flash was available. (At least this time a newer version was available.) It’s clear [...]
Monitoring Apple’s XProtect meta feed for changes
February 2, 2013
Greg had an interesting blog post yesterday on handling Apple’s XProtect Updater mechanism for managed environments, as admins were still scrambling to resolve clients that suddenly had their Java Web Plugin disabled and no newer version available to install that would satisfy Apple’s minimum version requirements defined in its XProtect blacklist (new versions of Java [...]