Is softwareupdate Broken in 10.4.0?
I've seen this more than once - the Update tab in SA doesn't do anything and neither does "softwareupdate -l" - they just wait forever. Here's a workaround (PPC!):
$ curl -O http://tinyurl.com/ynh85z
$ hdiutil attach ./*.dmg
$ cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Server\ 10.4.8\ Combined\ Update/
$ sudo installer -verbose -pkg ./MacOSXSrvrCombo10.4.8PPC.mpkg/ -target /


After that, softwareupdate and SA > Update seem to work again. :)

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