This project looks cool.
My situation: I'm the IT department for a small boarding school. We
currently have 18 computers in a lab, (Optiplex GX110) about a dozen
staff computers (Dell GX1, + 2 different generic computers).
I've dealt with this so far through ghosting. The problem of course
is that there are always a few machines that are going to be
different. (The bookkeeper's box runs ACCPAC...) Multiply different
users and different hardware and you get a combintorical explosion.
Now the next stage: We're using a new record keeping system that
requires each teacher to have a laptop. So I'm supporting 6 school
laptops and about the same number that teachers bought on their own.
And we're encouraging students to have laptops. (DON'T get me
started... Not my decision) So I have my spywa^H^H^N monitoring
tools to install, as well as antivirus... And of course these will be
different yet.
So wpkg is a glimmer of hope at the far end of a very dark tunnel.
****
Anyway -- Questions:
1. Can multiple depends statements exist in the same profile?
<profile-id="netapps" />
<package package-id="thunderbird" />
<package package-id="firefox" />
<package package-id="opera" />
<package paakage-id="flash" />
<package paakage-id="shockwave" />
<package paakage-id="javaruntime" />
</profile>
<profile-id="photo" />
<package package-id="photoshop" />
<package package-id="nikonview" />
</profile>
<profile-id="words" />
<package package-id="MSOffice" />
<package package-id="MathEdit" />
<package package-id="AcrobatRdr" />
</profile>
<profile-id="remadmin" />
<package package-id="K9" />
<package package-id="VNC" />
<package package-id="Cygwin" />
</profile>
<profile-id="TLE" />
<package package-id="TLE7" />
<package package-id="TLE8" />
<package package-id="TLE9" />
<package package-id="TLE10" />
<package package-id="TLE11" />
</profile>
<profile id="common">
<depends profile-id="netapps" />
<depends profile-id="photo" />
<depends profile-id="words" />
<depends profile-id="remadm"/>
</profile>
2. Is order significant in profiles. Does the profile mentioned
in a depends statement have to be defined before it is used.
3. Given my problem with handwritten HTML files in getting all my
tags closed properly: What is the easiest way to verify that one of
the xml files is syntactically correct?
4. In light of the above; How robust is wpkg? If I mis-spell
package as pakcage will this have an effect outside the scope of the
enclosing profile?
5. What about missing data:
Profile foo mentions package bar, but bar is not yet defined in
packages.xml
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St. John's School of Alberta 780-848-2881 Ext 134
RR - 5, Stony Plain, Alberta, T7Z 1X5
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