Andrew Z schrieb: > Hello, > > I am trying out wpkg, and I have a suggestion: on our network I would > like users to be able to delay software installations. Imagine a > scenario where the software change is not critical, but the person may > be in a hurry and unnecessarily inconvenienced by waiting. Therefore, I > propose extra options in packages such as these: > > <package id="putty" name="putty" revision="1" priority="0" reboot="false"> > <delay max_times="5" max_date="2005-12-31"> <!-- the new options are on > this line only --> > <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="PuTTY version 0.58" /> > <install cmd='\\server\directory\putty-0.58-installer.exe /sp- /silent' /> > </package> > > With these options, the user would see a message such as this: > > The following changes should be made to your system: > Install-Putty-May be delayed 5 more times until December 21, 2005 > Upgrade-Firefox-Required > Remove-AVG Antivirus-Required > Some of these changes may be delayed. Would you like to make all > these changes now? yes/no > > Also, it would be sufficient to implement just the max_date option and > not also max_times. Just run WPKG when system shuts down, or even when it starts, but in the background. The date="2005-12-31" option would be nice of course (meaning software will be installed after that date); you could set up everything, take a long holiday, and WPKG would take care of everything :) -- Tomek http://wpkg.org wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users |