[wpkg-users] wpkg and unattended

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Paul Griffith schrieb:

 > Greetings,
 >
 > I am wondering if anyone is using wpkg with unattended and in what
 > form.
 > Are you using wpkg to push out updates?


Windows updates - no.
I use Windows update for that (configured during the Unattended install).
Other updates - yes (Acrobat Reader, Firefox updates, new software 
versions etc.).

 > Are you using wpkg to push out new apps so don't have to rebuild the
 > whole PC?


yep.
I also manage quite a large amount of PCs that are located in different 
cities throughout the country, so it's the only sane way to do it.


 > I just started to look at wpkg and it looks like a really good
 > package.
 > I do have a few concerns....
 >
 > 1 - Can the packages.xml file be split in smaller files. I deal with
 > approx 90 packages (more if you include the new versions that have to
 > be tested before we push them out).


 > It would be a pain to navigate through a .xml with 90 packages, how do
 > users of wpkg manage?


well, it's a planned feature to allow WPKG to "read" from multiple 
smaller files.

Knud Albrechtsen has made a fix to allow multiple smaller files - see 
this bug report: http://bugs.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3

You can download the modified WPKG version here:

http://wpkg.org/devel/TransformXML.zip


 > I am currently using unattended and I looking at wpkg as a way to push
 > out updates. I guess I could just use wpkg to call unattended scripts.


mostly, you would need some modifications though (I think - perhaps some 
paths would be gone/different etc.)


-- 
Tomek
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