> > Hi Rainer, > > Thanks for the response. > > I was hoping there was a switch or mode to bypass this behaviour, but it > seems that it's designed that way. As you suggested, I'll expand my script > to auto-generate any missing profiles. It adds a level of complexity I > would have liked to avoid, but it's no big deal. > > I'll put up my scripts once I'm done as I'm sure others could make use of > them. > > Thanks again, > > Carl. > > On 25 May 2012 18:37, Rainer Meier <r.me...@wpkg.org> wrote: > >> Hi Carl, >> >> >> On 25.05.2012 16:16, Carl van Eijk wrote: >> >>> I've noticed that application of all profiles fail if there is a >>> reference to >>> just one non existent profile. >>> >> ... >> >> Even though neither "wbl_uk_computers" nor "wbl00379" exist, I still >>> want "test" >>> to apply. >>> >>> How do I go about this? >>> >> >> In fact a host definition which refers to profiles which cannot be found >> is invalid and there are very good reasons for it. >> If WPKG cannot find a profile, then this might be due to errors in >> profile definition, missing profile files, failed to mount/access share or >> other reason. WPKG cannot know whether the profile referenced is just >> missing by accident or not. If WPKG would allow missing profiles and >> continues anyway this would lead to extremely dangerous situation that if a >> profile is temporary unavailable WPKG will just uninstall any package which >> was assigned through this profile earlier. So it might cause serious >> unwanted injury to your existing systems. Therefore WPKG aborts if profiles >> which are not found are referenced. There is no way to override it. >> >> I think the best and very cleanway would be to extend your VB script to >> assure that there is a profile for any of your groups. Even if the profile >> is empty. This way all the references would be valid and if (forany reason) >> profiles.xml cannot be loaded WPKG would not simply uninstall all the >> software from your clients. >> >> br, >> Rainer >> > > > > -- > Carl van Eijk > >
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