Thanks Rainer, for this answer... Actually, I think I won't use wpkg_web anymore ... or try to see if a minor adaptation of wpkg-web could repair...
Just hope another front-end to wpkg will appear ... In fact, I personnaly don't need it but some admins in our high schools would appreciate... Best regards Nicolas Rainer Meier a écrit : > Hi Nicolas, > > Nicolas LEBRUN wrote: >> Hi ! >> >> I'am a new user of wpkg ( version 1.1M6) with wpkg_web. I'm using the >> wpkg-client 1.3.6 on the client ... Everything is OK. > > Wpkg_web is currently not under active development not. > > >> But i can't find any way to have the download functionnality working. > > Right - quite sure it's related to wpkg_web usage. The download feature > within wpkg_web has been implemented without WPKG support (or there > might be some support within an older 0.xx release. Note that WPKG has > been almost completely rewritten for version 1.0 (and version 1.0 did > not include the download feature). > WPKG 1.1.x pre-release contains a download feature but it's implemented > slightly differently and more robust than the way wpkg_web was thinking > about it. The syntax is described within the change notes: > > examples: > <package...> > <download url="http://example.org/package.exe" target="package.exe" /> > <install cmd="%TEMP%\file.exe some arguments" ...> > <download url="http://example.org/file.exe" target="file.exe" /> > </install> > <install cmd="%TEMP%\file2.exe some arguments" ...> > <download url="http://example.org/file2.exe" target="file2.exe" /> > </install> > <upgrade cmd="%TEMP%\update.exe arguments" ...> > <download url="http://example.org/update.exe" target="update.exe" /> > </upgrade> > </package> > > > As you can see the download command is part of the "command" section > now. Not part of the global section. > > So unfortunately the way wpgk_web is creating download information is > incompatible with the implementation in WPKG. > In any case I strongly suggest not to use the download feature and use > SMB/CIFS shares instead. This is considered to be much more robust way > of deployment than downloading packages via HTTP. > > If you really want to use it (at no support of course) then you need to > write your XML files manually or export them from wpkg_web and extend > them manually. > > > Another possibility might be to use a CMD script during installation > which is using "wget" or a similar tool to download files before > installing them. > > br, > Rainer > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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