Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-14 Thread simplesi
David Abilleira wrote: > > Perhaps you could make a couple of simple scripts: > · One that writes today's date on a registry key > · One that checks that registry key to see if matches today's date > > You can add *the first as a command to all* installation tasks , > and the second as a comm

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Kevin, Kevin Keane wrote: > I was under the impression that wpgk.js /synchronize would add all matching > Packages to wpkg.xml as well? Is that not the case? No, WPKG does add only the packages you assign to the host via the assigned profile. WPKG cannot find "matching" packages. Going thro

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users- > boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Meier > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:51 AM > To: Pendl Stefan > Cc: wpkg > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Chris, Chris Wilcox wrote: > Glad I'm not missing something! If it did work like this then > Add/Remove Programs would be emptied at each boot :) Only if you assume that you would have a package for each and every software in the world using proper uninstall strings which cleanly removes eve

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Stefan, Pendl Stefan wrote: > This is not true, WPKG removes only packages listed in the local wpkg.xml > file, which are not assigned to the host via profiles. > > If the user installs any application without using WPKG, then it is not > managed. Confirmed (see my other post in this threa

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Kevin, Kevin Keane wrote: > First, one more pitfall warning: regardless of what you do, remember that > WPKG will also *UNINSTALL* software if it has a package definition, but is > not listed in your profile. So if a user already installed software that is > not yet in his profile, WPKG woul

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Wilcox
> > From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org > > [mailto:wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Wilcox > > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:12 AM > > To: wpkg > > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run > > > > >

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Pendl Stefan
> > I've a need for some sort of mechanism to just deploy one > package at a time > at each run of wpkg.js. > > Some packages (Anti-virus, service packs etc) can take a long time to > install and I'd like to have WPKG just do one of these > packages on one run > of wpkg.js (e.g. one package the 1st

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Pendl Stefan
> > Kevin Keane-2 wrote: > > The first request should be fairly easy to do: just add only one > > application at a time to your profiles. > > My main issues are machines that for one reason or another > haven't run WPKG > each day - e.g wireless machines that have failed to connect > to the wireles

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Pendl Stefan
> > From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org > [mailto:wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Wilcox > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:12 AM > To: wpkg > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run > > >> First, one more pitfall w

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Kevin Keane
From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Wilcox Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:12 AM To: wpkg Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run >> First, one more pitfall warning: regardless of what you do, re

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Wilcox
> From: subscript...@kkeane.com > To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:50:11 -0800 > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run > > First, one more pitfall warning: regardless of what you do, remember that > WPKG will also *UNINSTAL

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Kevin Keane
wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run > > > > Kevin Keane-2 wrote: > > The first request should be fairly easy to do: just add only one > > application at a time to your profiles. > > My main issues are ma

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-12 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Simon, simplesi wrote: > > Kevin Keane-2 wrote: >> The first request should be fairly easy to do: just add only one >> application at a time to your profiles. > > My main issues are machines that for one reason or another haven't run WPKG > each day - e.g wireless machines that have failed t

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-11 Thread David Abilleira
Perhaps you could make a couple of simple scripts: · One that writes today's date on a registry key · One that checks that registry key to see if matches today's date You can add *the first as a command to all* installation tasks , and the second as a command to the tasks you want to stop if oth

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-11 Thread simplesi
Kevin Keane-2 wrote: > The first request should be fairly easy to do: just add only one > application at a time to your profiles. My main issues are machines that for one reason or another haven't run WPKG each day - e.g wireless machines that have failed to connect to the wireless since the la

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-11 Thread Kevin Keane
-users- > boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of simplesi > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:20 AM > To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > Subject: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run > > > I've a need for some sort of mechanism to just deploy one package at a

Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Wilcox
> > I've a need for some sort of mechanism to just deploy one package at a time > at each run of wpkg.js. > > Some packages (Anti-virus, service packs etc) can take a long time to > install and I'd like to have WPKG just do one of these packages on one run > of wpkg.js (e.g. one package the 1st

[wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

2009-11-11 Thread simplesi
I've a need for some sort of mechanism to just deploy one package at a time at each run of wpkg.js. Some packages (Anti-virus, service packs etc) can take a long time to install and I'd like to have WPKG just do one of these packages on one run of wpkg.js (e.g. one package the 1st time and then t