I used to have the pre-release seeds option in System Preferences > App Store. I accidentally disabled it and the option disappeared. How do I get it back? I have tried redownloading and reinstalling the latest update, but that didn't fix the issue. I'm on the public beta.
Pre-Release Seeds?
I've edited my replies to avoid the risk of anyone reading this thread getting mislead into changing their catalog once they are running the GM and to make the thread easier to follow.
Since we didn't reach a "correct answer" per se for my original question, I didn't click "correct answer" anywhere, but I did click on all the "this helped me" links. Thanks again for all your help!
One final question:
Would using
softwareupdate --clear-catalogbe the same as setting the GM Seed Catalog since I am on the GM?
No, that would completely unset it - you don't want to do that. If the last softwareupdate command you ran wasn't:
sudo softwareupdate --set-catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gzThen you should run it now. I've checked my own catalog and this is what it is set to - the public and developer betas are now on a unified catalog. The format of the catalog's URL makes that evident if you know what you're looking for.
Btw. I quite agree that no correct answer was reached, but if you want to promote selected posts - your own included - that helped clarify the situation, then please use the Actions menu underneath them to "Mark as Helpful" instead of the "This helped me" button. Those posts will then be promoted at the the top of the thread and also in searches for anyone else looking for the same answers.
Thank you! I marked the helpful posts and I set the proper catalog. Thank you so much for all your time!
I've also emailed Apple Developer Support about this issue and I'll see what they say.
No problem! - I learned something too - it makes sense that the update catalog would change from seed(dev) and beta(public) to the unified release one after the transition to GM. I like understanding that sort of thing 🙂
Yes, I love understanding these things as well. Now if I could just understand why the catalog is the same, but the build numbers are different ...
🙂 This was covered by an Apple Staff member on the old forums somewhere - sometimes the difference is purely nominal so as to be able to distingush a build released for public from the release for dev. This tends to be the case when there is only a single increment in the letter at the end of the build as is the case now 15A282a (public) vs. 15A282b (dev). When the difference in build number is more significant it normally denotes genuine differences - improvements made in the day or more between releases.
Is there a command that will show you which catalog you are using?
Yes [Edited]:
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist CatalogURL
It works as follows (I'm moving this to a new reply because these are very squashed):
The catalog for a Developer Preview version of OS X needs to have "xx.xxseed" in the URL:
...index-10.11seed-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion...
The catalog for a Public Beta version of OS X needs to have "xx.xxbeta" in the URL:
...index-10.11beta-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion...
The catalog for a release version of OS X should not have either:
...index-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion...
Thus all these 3 URLs will have slightly different OS X update content depending on the Update Path the Mac is set to:
- https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11seed-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
- https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11beta-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
- https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
I recently installed the GM Candidate (public beta) and disabled the pre-release seeds option in System Preferences > App Store. I saw the update for 10.11.1 beta appear in the App Store and figured that I wanted to remain on a stable/GM build and get off the beta track. My question is: what happens if the public release of El Capitan is a higher/newer build number than the GM Candidate? Will an update be made available for those of us on the GM Candidate to upgrade to the final, public build? I'd rather not be forced to do a clean install just to get the final build.