The easy fix is to edit your profiles.xml and add: <variable name="SOFTWARE" value="\\path to stuff"/>
If you have multiple profiles a trick is to add a dependency: <profile id="app_dir"> <variable name="SOFTWARE" value="\\path to stuff"/> </profile> <profile id="default"> <depends profile-id="app_dir"/> <package ... ... </profile> <profile id="default2"> <depends profile-id="app_dir"/> <package ... ... </profile> It works under <profile>, I didn't try adding the variable to the top level <profiles>. That may work also. Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: W. Chris Shank [mailto:shan...@acetechgroup.com] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 10:49 AM To: Jacob A. Wyatt Cc: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] %SOFTWARE% variable not resolving I'm seeing this too. WPKG client 1.2.1 and wpkg.js v 1.0.2. my settings file has SOFTWARE variable declared and this worked in older version i've been using for over a year. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob A. Wyatt" <jwy...@ggc.usg.edu> To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:28:05 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [wpkg-users] %SOFTWARE% variable not resolving I'm having trouble with packages not installing because of the %SOFTWARE% environment variable. Example: >From http://wpkg.org/Java: <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\jre\jre-6u11-windows-i586-p.exe /s IEXPLORER=1 MOZILLA=1 ADDLOCAL=ALL REBOOT=Suppress JAVAUPDATE=0 JU=0 AUTOUPDATECHECK=0' /> Does NOT work, but... <install cmd='%comspec% /c %SOFTWARE%\jre\jre-6u11-windows-i586-p.exe /s IEXPLORER=1 MOZILLA=1 ADDLOCAL=ALL REBOOT=Suppress JAVAUPDATE=0 JU=0 AUTOUPDATECHECK=0' /> Works! Just adding %comspec% /c causes the %SOFTWARE% variable to expand where it otherwise isn't. Weird. I'm working with a network that someone else set up and I assume this is not wpkg's fault, but what could it be? Jacob Wyatt Associate Enterprise Systems Administrator ex. 5301 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users -- -- W. Chris Shank ACE Technology Group www.myRemoteITdept.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users