Re: [wpkg-users] Testing updates
Hi all, What is the best way to thes updates to the already deployed packages? We have quite few packages at the top level of profiles hierarchy (covering nearly all of the machines). Remving package from there and putting it in the test profile would be disasterous. What i have been doing so far is: make a copy of a package, change package id, apply, upgrade the revision and appropriate install/upgrade/remove tags, apply - if all is well copy the package to its original file and package id. Is there a more efficient way to do this? May thanks Luk -- Luk, I have a duplicate of the WPKG server folder for a small number of testing machines. I have created virtual machines using Virtual Box from Sun, which you can use for free. I am keeping both WPKG installations in sync with WinMerge from Sourceforge.net --- Stefan - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] Testing updates
Pendl Stefan wrote: Hi all, What is the best way to thes updates to the already deployed packages? We have quite few packages at the top level of profiles hierarchy (covering nearly all of the machines). Remving package from there and putting it in the test profile would be disasterous. What i have been doing so far is: make a copy of a package, change package id, apply, upgrade the revision and appropriate install/upgrade/remove tags, apply - if all is well copy the package to its original file and package id. Is there a more efficient way to do this? May thanks Luk -- Luk, I have a duplicate of the WPKG server folder for a small number of testing machines. I have created virtual machines using Virtual Box from Sun, which you can use for free. I am keeping both WPKG installations in sync with WinMerge from Sourceforge.net --- Stefan - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users Thx a lot, this is exactly what i was looking for Regards Luk - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
[wpkg-users] Testing updates
Hi all, What is the best way to thes updates to the already deployed packages? We have quite few packages at the top level of profiles hierarchy (covering nearly all of the machines). Remving package from there and putting it in the test profile would be disasterous. What i have been doing so far is: make a copy of a package, change package id, apply, upgrade the revision and appropriate install/upgrade/remove tags, apply - if all is well copy the package to its original file and package id. Is there a more efficient way to do this? May thanks Luk - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] Testing updates
Hi Lukasz, one way to do this is to keep a testing copy of all WPKG files and setups and make your test clients use this instead of the production files. This way you get a completely separate base dir and %SOFTWARE%. You can test different packages, profiles, to some extent hosts, different versions of WPKG as well as changes to the software repository. When all is well, you can rsync the testing tree to the production one and get the new setup for all clients. Saves you from possible problems with changing package ids. I'm using samba with the expand_msdfs VFS module to relay clients to the testing or production trees based on their IP address. This way, they can all use the same UNC paths and the server decides which version they get. This eliminates problems with MSI getting angry when the installation path is changed behind its back and there is no need to modify any paths after syncing back to production. HTH, Malte Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 20:12:01 schrieb Lukasz Zalewski: Hi all, What is the best way to thes updates to the already deployed packages? We have quite few packages at the top level of profiles hierarchy (covering nearly all of the machines). Remving package from there and putting it in the test profile would be disasterous. What i have been doing so far is: make a copy of a package, change package id, apply, upgrade the revision and appropriate install/upgrade/remove tags, apply - if all is well copy the package to its original file and package id. Is there a more efficient way to do this? May thanks Luk - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
