[wpkg-users] using wpkg to remove existing software

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Dominik L. Borkowski schrieb:
> Hello,
> We recently took some interest in wpkg, it seems it will allow us to automate 
> a lot of windows work. One question though: is there an easy to create an 
> uninstall profile for a set of defined software.
> 
> To illustrate this a bit more, say you have X number of workstations with 
> software maintained currently by hand. Most have software A, B & C, but you 
> want to start deploying wpkg for all of them. Thus the need to be able to 
> easily remove existing software arises. 
> 
> Think of an admin going to a workstation, issuing one command to clean up the 
> existing thunderbird, firefox, etc - then running wpkg with synchronize 
> options, and having them installed from packages. 
> 
> What are some of the ways you have been dealing with the existing 
> installations?

Just write a description (in packages.xml) of your current applications.

If they are not in the profile for the given workstation, they will be 
removed (provided you specified uninstall command in packages.xml).

-- 
Tomek
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