Re: [wpkg-users] Stopping installations being called each time WPKG runs...

2009-02-10 Thread K . E . Jones
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users- > boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Chmielewski > Sent: 10 February 2009 22:06 > To: Chris Wilcox > Cc: wpkg > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Stopping installations being ca

Re: [wpkg-users] Stopping installations being called each time WPKG runs...

2009-02-10 Thread mscdex
On 2/10/09, Rainer Meier wrote: > > Most of them can be worked around by installing them on a reference > system (or virtual machine) and just re-package them with 7-zip self > extractor or similar. Then crate a small batch script whcih is silently > extracting it, registering some DLL or adding r

Re: [wpkg-users] Stopping installations being called each time WPKG runs...

2009-02-10 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Chris, Chris Wilcox wrote: > That gets me to my question - the commercial system I use will never > initiate a package installation if the local and network ini file says > that the package is already installed. With WPKG, it seems you MUST > specifiy conditions to prevent this occuring? This

Re: [wpkg-users] Stopping installations being called each time WPKG runs...

2009-02-10 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Chris Wilcox schrieb: > That gets me to my question - the commercial system I use will never > initiate a package installation if the local and network ini file says > that the package is already installed. With WPKG, it seems you MUST > specifiy conditions to prevent this occuring? Most of t

[wpkg-users] Stopping installations being called each time WPKG runs...

2009-02-10 Thread Chris Wilcox
Hi all, I'm used to a commercial package allocation tool which behaves a little differently to WPKG in respect of how it decides if a package is installed or not. The package install commands are, like WPKG, all held in network based ini files. Each workstation has a network based and local