AutoPkg recipes for macOS Sierra, OS X El Capitan and OS X Yosemite OS installers now available

Now that Apple has made direct download links available for older OS installers, I’ve written AutoPkg .download and .pkg recipes for the following macOS installers:

• macOS Sierra
• OS X El Capitan
• OS X Yosemite

These recipes will download the disk images linked to the relevant KBase articles, extract the installer packages stored inside the disk images and rename the disk images and installer packages with the OS name and version number.

One thing to be aware of is that the downloaded installers do not themselves install the relevant version of macOS or OS X. Instead, they install the Install.app for that version of macOS or OS X into the /Applications directory.

The AutoPkg recipes are available via the links below:

• macOS Sierra: https://github.com/autopkg/rtrouton-recipes/tree/master/macOSSierra
• OS X El Capitan: https://github.com/autopkg/rtrouton-recipes/tree/master/OSXElCapitan
• OS X Yosemite: https://github.com/autopkg/rtrouton-recipes/tree/master/OSXYosemite