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I use AutoPkgr (mac program, https://github.com/lindegroup/autopkgr/releases ) to automatically check for updates, download, and generate packages out of Driver Packs and Bios updates ( https://github.com/jeremylarose/autopkg-recipes ) daily. … Then I use Salt ( https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ ) to deploy them, with this simple state…

{% set model = grains[‘productname’] %}

‘c:\salt\drivers{{ model }}.exe’:
file.managed:

• source: ‘salt://win/drivers/win10/{{ model }}.exe’
• makedirs: True

install_drivers:
cmd.run:

• name: ‘“c:\salt\drivers{{ model }}.exe”’
• onchanges:
• file: ‘c:\salt\drivers{{ model }}.exe’

@Wayne-Workman

1. Be on a Mac, version 10.8 or higher
2. download AutoPkgr… https://github.com/lindegroup/autopkgr/releases
3. Open AutoPkgr and install Git and AutoPkg with the provided buttons
4. In the “Add a repo URL manually” box, add the following to get many Dell drivers and software … https://github.com/jeremylarose/autopkg-recipes.git
5. right click on any pkg you want and click “Create Override”… this is to protect you from any malicious changes ( https://github.com/lindegroup/autopkgr/wiki/Overrides-and-Trust-Info )
6. now you can right click on the created local recipe (Recipe identifier changes to local.pkg…) and click run this “Run this Recipe Only” to create that package at ~/Library/AutoPkg/Cache

that’s it, although…

7. you’ll likely want to checkmark all the packages you want and setup a schedule to run automatically
8. you’ll likely want to create your own recipes for different models, which you can essentially duplicate the ones I already have created and modify, or just ask and I can probably do it real quick

bonus…

9. I created a PkgOrganizer PostProcessor that will organize them in a PkgOrganizer folder, to add that…
10. in AutoPkgr, click “Folders and Integration” then click “Configure AutoPkg” button and paste this into the postprocesser… com.github.jeremylarose.SharedProcessors/PkgOrganizer

Now you have silent installers to do whatever your want with. I find this tool extremely handy, saves alot of work. Its also amazing for macs with munki.