What's the best way to manage two packages that don't have anything to do with each other?
Most of our packages are deployed along organizational lines, which I can easily manage through profiles, but we then have a couple of packages (WordPerfect and instant messaging) that are deployed on an individual basis (e.g., one user in the labs might want WordPerfect, and one user in the development office, and one user in the admissions office...). As I understand WPKG, this would require a development profile, and a development+WordPerfect profile, and a development+IM+WordPerfect profile, etc. This seems like it could very quickly get ugly. I can think of two solutions: Some kind of generator for profiles.xml and hosts.xml that creates all of the possible profile combinations automatically - does anyone have such a generator? Alter the package definition: instead of always installing a package, check a text list of hosts that should have this particular package, and only install the package if the host is listed. This would require that the checkinstall condition for the package always returns true, and it would have the disadvantage of not automatically installing or removing the package as hosts are added to or removed from the text list. Any suggestions? Am I making sense? Josh Kelley ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
