Tag: blocking applications

  • Rolling back versions in Munki and using blocking applications arrays

    Downgrading software in Munki can be a bit tricky. One of the tricks you can use is to remove the higher version number from your Munki repo, and replace an .app bundle–based installs array with a binary-based one. So, after removing the higher version from your repo, replacing the lower version’s pkginfo with something like…

  • Disabling blocking applications for a Munki package

    I was having a weird issue with CrashPlan, in which Munki was blocking CrashPlan from uninstalling because CrashPlan.app was supposedly running (the actual app wasn’t running‐just a CrashPlan-initiated launch daemon). Unfortunately, I didn’t actually read the documentation on blocking applications, because there is, in fact, a different between not specifying a blocking application and specifying…