On 12/5/2011 1:59 PM, Alan Adams wrote:
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Joe wrote:
On 12/5/2011 1:03 PM, bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.wpkg.org wrote:
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258
Rainer Meier changed:
What|R
On 12/5/2011 1:03 PM, bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.wpkg.org wrote:
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258
Rainer Meier changed:
What|Removed |Added
Status|RESOLVED
Does anyone have any tips on how to add entries to the windows
(7 and xp, 32 and 64 bit) hosts and services files?
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On 11/16/2011 1:27 PM, Rainer Meier wrote:
There was no work on an exclude function for good reason. We had some
discussion on it and I clearly voted against such
a non-feature which is likely to cause a lot of issues and unexpected results
at no added value. You can use profile
dependencies an
I have a profile with a dozen or so packages. Now I need that same profile
without one of the packages. It appears there was work on an clause
but it doesn't appear to have been implemented. Is there an easy way to exclude
a package without copying a whole profile?
On 11/11/2011 10:50 AM, Stefan Pendl wrote:
Am 11.11.2011 16:35, schrieb Joe:
On 11/11/2011 10:19 AM, Joe wrote:
I figured it out. Note the capital v in Variable. Foolish but it's as
not readily apparent in notepad
as it was my mail program. Thanks and sorry for the interruption.
On 11/11/2011 10:19 AM, Joe wrote:
I figured it out. Note the capital v in Variable. Foolish but it's as not
readily apparent in notepad
as it was my mail program. Thanks and sorry for the interruption.
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On 11/11/2011 9:59 AM, Paul McGrath wrote:
Sorry slash in wrong place
Yep otherwise "%PROGRAMFILES% (x86)" = "c:\program files (x86)\ (x86)"
On both winows xp 32-bit and windows 7 64-bit PROGRAMFILES returns "C:\program
files".
In the package I am making the decision on where the package is l
Using 1.2...I have a Firefox extension that I'm installing and using
"architecture" to set a variable
that controls the package destination (PKG_DESTINATION). For some reason
PKG_DESTINATION is picking up the
wrong value from a package that is installed before it. You can see it in the
de
On 11/10/2011 2:35 PM, Stefan Pendl wrote:
Using wpkg 1.2...
I'm switching our users from Openoffice to LibreOffice. The
file associations will
not change to LO unless OO is uninstalled. Sometimes an
uninstall of OO fails and LO
is installed but then the file associations don't work. Can
I s
Using wpkg 1.2...
I'm switching our users from Openoffice to LibreOffice. The file associations
will
not change to LO unless OO is uninstalled. Sometimes an uninstall of OO fails
and LO
is installed but then the file associations don't work. Can I somehow make the
installation of LO depend o
On 4/25/2011 1:10 PM, Rainer Meier wrote:
In this example all hosts whose names start with "prefix-" would be assigned
profile1, the host named "hosty" gets profile2 assigned etc.
Any host not matching any previous host definition will be catched by the
regular expression ".*" which just matches
It's not clear to me but is there a way to have a default profile?
Such that any package listed will install to all hosts, then any
package defined in other profiles will install to that profile?
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On 1/28/2011 3:41 AM, LAPLAUD François wrote:
Hi,
I don't know if this can help.
For my part, I add a line like this one in the package definition in
package.xml :
As WPKG do when notify is on
Hope this help.
P.S : I have never tried this before login, I use wpkg in a scheduled task.
Nice
On 1/26/2011 12:03 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
On 25.01.2011 17:48, Joe wrote:
I have a wpkg user running wpkg at login. The problem is
that the real user cannot see that wpkg is running and then they tend
to restart when the computer seems busy. Is there some way to display
a popup message
I have a wpkg user running wpkg at login. The problem is
that the real user cannot see that wpkg is running and then they tend
to restart when the computer seems busy. Is there some way to display
a popup message while wpkg is running so any real user can see it on
the desktop?
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I've been trying all day to get a printer driver loaded and I finally need to
ask
for help. I can add a driver with...
rundll32 PrintUI.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /f \\R4p17\VOL1\apps\wpkg\programs\prndrvs\hp2840\hpc2800z.inf /m "HP Color
LaserJet 2840 PCL 6"
...on the command line with a user who
On 2/15/2010 2:55 PM, Rainer Meier wrote:
Thanks for reporting. I actually did not go the hard way to diff with this old
version. Instead I had a look at the current code and it seems that with WSH
checking for "FileExists" on a folder does not yield true. I've extended the
code now to check for
On 2/15/2010 1:54 PM, Rainer Meier wrote:
Hi Joe,
On 15.02.2010 19:48, Joe wrote:
1.0.2. Yes 1.0.2 works...
Uh, that's quite a big jump, I thought you were referring to version 1.1.x or
something. So good to know. Since there is almost a change in every part of WPKG
between 1.0.2 and
On 2/15/2010 1:36 PM, Rainer Meier wrote:
Hi Joe,
On 15.02.2010 16:37, Joe wrote:
Prior to upgrading to 1.1.2 this package worked ok. Now I get an error
saying the package is already
installed but the check failed. I am trying to remove a directory from
certain computers. If the
directory
Prior to upgrading to 1.1.2 this package worked ok. Now I get an error saying
the package is already
installed but the check failed. I am trying to remove a directory from certain
computers. If the
directory exists it should do the install which deletes the directory. On my
computer the dir
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Rainer Meier schrieb:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> Joe wrote:
>>> I'm trying to upgrade from openoffice 3.0 to 3.0.1.
>>> My error log shows...
>>>
>>> 2009-03-16 15:40:46, ERROR : Could not process (upgrade) pack
Rainer Meier wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Joe wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade from openoffice 3.0 to 3.0.1.
>> My error log shows...
>>
>> 2009-03-16 15:40:46, ERROR : Could not process (upgrade) package
>> 'OpenOffice.org' (OpenOffice):|Exit co
I'm trying to upgrade from openoffice 3.0 to 3.0.1.
My error log shows...
2009-03-16 15:40:46, ERROR : Could not process (upgrade) package
'OpenOffice.org' (OpenOffice):|Exit code returned
non-successful value (1638) on command 'msiexec /qn /i
"%SOFTWARE%\openoffice3\openofficeorg30.msi" ALLUS
.
Right now I am logging only errors to a central location
and am very happy with it.
Thank you both for explaining /quiet so well!
Joe
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Joe schrieb:
>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>> If /quiet flag is used, WPKG logs to Event Log as well (for
>>> historical reasons / backward compatibility with old versions mainly).
>>>
>>> Just don't use this flag, it
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> If /quiet flag is used, WPKG logs to Event Log as well (for historical
> reasons / backward compatibility with old versions mainly).
>
> Just don't use this flag, it won't write to event log.
I see that but the docs state to use it when running unattended.
What happen
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Joe schrieb:
>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>> Joe schrieb:
>>>> Several machines today show this error in the wpkg log. Any ideas
>>>> as to what could cause this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2008-
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Joe schrieb:
>> Several machines today show this error in the wpkg log. Any ideas
>> as to what could cause this?
>>
>>
>> 2008-08-18 07:42:40, ERROR : Error when writing to event log,
>> falling back to standard output
Several machines today show this error in the wpkg log. Any ideas
as to what could cause this?
2008-08-18 07:42:40, ERROR : Error when writing to event log,
falling back to standard output (STDOUT).|Description: |Error
number: 800705de|Stack: undefined|Line: undefined|
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mscdex wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestions. Regarding the XML import/export, I'm not
> sure what the purpose of this would be? The way I imagined the frontend
> to be was that it would work directly with the xml files on disk and
> none of that information would be stored in a database.
Alth
Rainer Meier wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Joe wrote:
>> I have set loglevel to 1 in config.xml. I run wpkg.js from
>> the same batch file on all workstations. At the end of the
>> batch file I copy the workstation log to a central directory.
>> Sometimes a log shows o
I have set loglevel to 1 in config.xml. I run wpkg.js from
the same batch file on all workstations. At the end of the
batch file I copy the workstation log to a central directory.
Sometimes a log shows only the errors and other times it
shows a complete log as if loglevel was set to 31.
Any tips
I ran into a problem today with firefox extensions that I'm not sure I can
solve.
I have upgraded everyone to firefox 3.0.1. A number of users have the ietab
extension installed into their Firefox profile that is incompatible with 3.0.1.
I set up an ietab package and tried to get it to do a globa
Zach Musselman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using wpkg to install numerous types of software. Half of which I
> have been able to install successfully (Firefox, Thunderbird, 7zip,
> Notepad++, and VLC). There are a hand full in which I cannot for the
> life of me get to execute correctly. I have
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Rainer Meier schrieb:
>> Hi Joe
>>
>> Joe wrote:
>>> Ok... Thanks... I was going crazy for a bit trying to figure out
>>> why the files never matched. Might want to add this to the docs
>>> on http://wpkg.org/Viewing
Rainer Meier wrote:
>> I had a 1619 error but could not understand the problem since the prior
>> three packages worked. I finally created a package to dump the
>> environment
>> vars to a file and then noticed my mistake. I still don't understand
>> why it
>> worked for the first three.
>
> P
Rainer Meier wrote:
> This brings up the idea in my mind to allow "[HOSTNAME]" within the
> settings_file_name and probably also within settings_file_path - this
> could solve the problem and have WPKG to write the file directly to the
> server when using
>
> value='iserv\\install\\wpkg\\s
Rainer Meier wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Joe wrote:
>> Is there any way to expand variables in the debug output?
>
> No, this is not planned yet. However I made a note here locally that I
> could identify some of the debug messages where this could be helpful.
> Doing it in
Rainer Meier wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> This is absolutely correct due to the fact that WPKG 1.x does not waste
> system resources any more by flushing an incomplete wpkg.xml after each
> package.
>
> If you really need to get the absolutely latest version of the local
> wpkg.xm
According to the docs you can use the following "package" to
view what has been installed on a workstation...
...but won't this always be behind by one run of wpkg? By looking at the log
the
last thing that wpkg does is write wpkg.xml. So this method will always copy
the last wpkg.xml and
Is there any way to expand variables in the debug output?
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Rainer Meier wrote:
>> Checking version of "c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe'
>> : Is 1.8.20080.42104 < 2.0.0.14 ? true
>
> Up to here it seems to be correct. 1.8 is smaller than 2.0
Ok... I thought it was a question: "Is this statement true?".
When it was a question and an a
I'm checking Firefox with the following rule:
WPKG shows this in debug mode:
Checking file version 1.8.20080.42104 is versionssmallerthan
(than) 2.0.0.14 - got result -1
Checking version of "c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe'
: Is 1.8.20080.42104 < 2.0.0.14 ? true
Package 'Mozilla
I'm checking Firefox with the following rule:
WPKG shows this in debug mode:
Checking file version 1.8.20080.42104 is versionssmallerthan
(than) 2.0.0.14 - got result -1
Checking version of "c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe'
: Is 1.8.20080.42104 < 2.0.0.14 ? true
Package 'Mozilla
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Almost no difference.
>
> With WPKG Client it is easier to specify different network credentials,
> there are some additional features, and is generally more user-friendly.
>
> But for the systems which are running 24/7 it shouldn't make a big
> difference. Especiall
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> WPKG service runs in the background, and it shouldn't matter if the user
> is logged in or not. It *shouldn't* - because if the user runs a
> program, its upgrade will likely fail. You could forcibly log out the
> users, but you risk loosing the work they didn't save
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> I have users who never restart the computer for months.
>
> You can use Windows Task Scheduler to stop / start WPKG service daily or
> weekly i.e. at night.
>
> You could use such a simple .bat script:
>
> net stop "WPKG service"
> net start "WPKG service"
What abo
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Joe schrieb:
>> Is there a way (by using the wpkg windows client) that
>> apps can be installed when a user logs on instead of
>> when the computer boots? The user will not have admin
>> rights. Can the wpkg service somehow be told to s
Is there a way (by using the wpkg windows client) that
apps can be installed when a user logs on instead of
when the computer boots? The user will not have admin
rights. Can the wpkg service somehow be told to start
processing at logon?
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