Software update server showing too many updates

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Software update server showing too many updates

We are having an issue with our Software Update Server on 10.6.8. It has started showing too many updates to the clients. For example, it will show the iTunes 10.5.1 update as well as iTunes 10.5 update if the 10.5 update hasn't been applied. If iTunes is several versions behind, it will show all those updates too. I also see this on Security Updates and Raw Compatibility updates.

At first I thought this was due to turing on the ability to host Lion updates, but it isn't the case. I have since turned on SUS on a different machine and it still does this for updates.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Posted on Nov 17, 2011 7:30 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 21, 2012 4:20 AM in response to Scott Murphy6

Same issue with our 2008 XServe. At 3am to 8am this morning, Software Update Server went loony & downloaded over 18GB of old updates.

Naturally, after tracking down this was the culprit, I've gone in & temporarily disabled Copy all updates from Apple, and disabled Automatically enable copied updates. To preserve our miniscule amount of broadband download quota remaining - it had shrunk to 500MB for the coming fortnight.

So we'll have to data-diet.

No idea why 18GB of old updates were downloaded out of the blue by Software Update Server. I wonder if yesterday's release of Apple Software Installer Update 1.0 somehow adjusted the back end of update management.

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Answer 2

Mar 21, 2012 5:05 PM in response to the empress

Myself and others are seeing the same issue: see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3817781?answerId=17918949022#17918949022

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Answer 3

Mar 22, 2012 12:15 AM in response to Marcus Rowell

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5198 has the explanation.

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