OK, just when I thought I had the hang of things wit wpkg, I came up with a new question. Thanks for this great tool.
I an ideal world we admins would like to be 100% in charge of what programs are, or are not as the case may be, installed on the workstations we are responsible for. However in some environments there will always be a few workstations that have more privileges than we would like, or even think is appropriate. But putting the politics aside. How would I get wpkg to check for a condition (might be a registry key - or could be a file or even a version of a program) and only if a certain condition exists (or not) actually install the latest version of said program? Something like check for the presence of the adobe reader and if it already exists, make sure we have the latest version, but if it isn't there in the first place, do not install or add it. Or the same thing (and slightly more realistic) if zonealarm firewall is installed then make sure it is the latest version. But if the machine doesn't already have it don't install it. The way I have seen wpkg work sofar, is I can use wpkg read a 'profile' and to then check for conditions for a package that is supposed to be part of that proifile and if certain minimum versions of programs or libraries or files or registry entries aren't fulfilled, wpkg will trigger an upgrade to the latest. But unless I have made a mistake somewhere it appears as if wpkg will faithfully do the checks, and if they confirm a condition, will then proceed to installing. In some environments the profile information will on occasions not be complete and 100% perfect and it would be nice if wpkg could somehow be told two or three 'anomalies' and if any of those are found, then proceed to install a certain, latest, version for those programs, without adding it to every single machine in that 'profile'. I guess I would call this new feature either an 'optional' flag or a 'installation dependency', depending on how you look at this. Am I the only one that would find this functionality usefull? Have I missed something, and can it already be done with the features wpkg already has? Thanks for any pointers or help in achieving this. Happy wpkg-ing. -- Urs Rau ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
