Twan Fox schrieb: > On 10/11/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Derek Werthmuller schrieb: >>> Have been looking at your utility as a way to deploy and manage windows >>> systems. The feature I like about the wpkg software is its ability to >>> check/ verify/ install/uninstall software. With its option in tight XML >>> files. >>> >>> What is troublesome is how it requires a file share to get the todo list >> and >>> packages to the systems to deploy. This makes it difficult to securely >>> update systems that are not inside the secure network perimeter. >> It is as secure as a normal file access in a Windows domain (I assume >> you are using a Windows domain). You can set it to a local machine, too. >> >> Anyway, you can always use some 3rd party tool, like scp, to download >> the files to the local machine, and deploy it from there (i.e., use "pre >> script" in WPKG Client). > > > I could see a problem with a 'pre-script' to download packages for > installation being that it would have no way to know what packages needed to > be installed without reinventing the 'package selection' sections of wpkg.js.
I meant something else: download wpkg.js and xml files to a local folder. Then, use something similar for <install ...> instructions - then, you don't have to worry about reinventing the package selection. > Besides, I have a feeling that the suggestion included that there should be > a way to get the .xml files to the clients running wpkg.js without needing a > file share, and there is already such a solution. Wpkg web. Yep. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
