What's the issue exactly?
Conflicting information abounds..!
Seems like everyone has their own list of what updates are needed, and all differ from each other in at least
some small way. Most are just trying to satisfy Windows Update, which is fine I guess, but I care more about having the last available versions of files rather than what WU says, and I know WU does not offer
everything to begin with.
(Even hotfixes/updates that did not apply to my system I would at least archive in the event they're needed.)
all updates in WHDownloader list are not superseded
except the updates under Extra\WithoutKB3125574, they are all superseded by KB3125574
I actually started out using WHDownloader files from your list;
(originally was going to make a run without KB3125574 but NTLite didn't like a bunch of the files from the WithoutKB3125574 category; now I see these may be garbage .HTM files based on a post at MDL) but ran into a problem with KB3191566 as reflected in the earlier posts. After this I decided to leave out KB3191566 and anything else that doesn't directly integrate until later.
At that point I got sidetracked from the WHDownloader list; was trying to get all of the "optional component" packages installed first, then KB3125574, then non-superseded rollups...
I ran several builds, having to start from scratch each time after finding out something had to be done in a certain order, or that "DISM Compatible clean update mode" did not work on 7, or that something I had used was superseded, etc etc. Very frustrating.
So I finally arrived at a build that includes all of the optional component packages and satisfies WU; but I go back to review updates I collected with other tools and find WSUS Offline Update downloaded over 250 updates.. I haven't purged this list of ones I've already added yet, and I assume a good number of these are superseded, but it's hard to believe they are
all irrelevant...
One example of the conflicting info I'm talking about; garlin said that the Windows Update Agent packages are cumulative and to discard the older "WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6-x64.exe" package, but this is still in the WHDownloader set. Also it appears KB4539601 replaces both KB4534310 and KB4539602 which are in the set...
Mainly I wanted your input on what is and is not superseded in order to be able to know whether or not the WSUS files are worth fooling with. If the WHDownloader set is considered to "cover everything," then I will go back and compare it to what I have done and see what's left.