sbotsford wrote:
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1) Could you send me your profiles.xml, hosts.xml and packages.xml?
Added as attachments
2) What version of WPKG do you use? Could you try the latest testing
(0.9.8-test2)?
This is the first thing I tried. Identical behaviour. Scripten is
version 5.6 from the link on the wpkg web page.
3) do you still get this error when you use same profile + packages,
but for a different host?
No. If I run wpkg for the classes of machines lab* it does what I
expect. (Not all of what I want, yet, but it works and installs the 3-4
packages I've got working properly.)
So you're saying that exactly the same profiles + packages wor for one
host, but don't work for another?
Then you're probably being affected by some Windows component that's
either missing, disabled or broken etc.
On a newly installed XP system, WPKG works out of the box, for Windows
2000 you only have to install "scripten".
Did you see "Code: 800a0030..." thread?
The easiest way to recover from such a situation would be to reinstall
the affected machines from scratch.
It can be done via using Unattended (http://unattended.sf.net).
From your message this is something being spewed out by cscript, and
not by wpkg itself. This by itself is helpful. Are there alternate js
interpreters that give better debugging info?
I'm not aware of any other js interpreters.
***
My next step will be to remove the packages from that profile. See if I
can narrow it down. I'm betting on a stupid syntax error in my xml files.
If there was a syntax error in any of xml files, it should be reported
by WPKG.
***
On debugging. dviPS, part of the TeX distribution has one of the best
debugging interfaces I've run into. With it you gave debug what
amounted to a bit field.
debug = 1 Specials
debug = 2 paths
debug = 4 fonts
debug = 8 pages
... and so on.
Summing them up allowed you to pick combinations.
Suppose on wpkg it was something like:
debug = 1 XML parsing (Show parse tree?)
debug = 2 Consistency checking. (Prints out if host file contains
profiles that aren't in profiles, if profiles reference packages that
aren't in packages.
debug = 4 Detailed package checking. (Verifies the existence of
paths, and commands)
debug = 8 Print the command about to be executed, wait for keypress,
print exit status.
debug = 16 Put the interpreter into some form of debug mode
Now, I haven't the experience with either XML, JS, or winsnooze to say
if any these are good ideas. Maybe they will spark your ideas.
There is a patch pending to do something like this (sort of). You can
find it on http://bugs.wpkg.org (search through "open bugs").
But as I said, I guess it has something to do with the host? I don't know.
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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