[wpkg-users] WPKG Installer

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

David Miller wrote:
> Tomasz,
>   I have a request for the installer. 
> 
>   How about add a test to the packages.xml format that allows the 
> installer to test whether or not a particular process is running prior 
> to installing/upgrading/removing a package.  With an option to kill the
> process.  I guess this could fall into the pre command catagory.  But 
> this way if needed wpkg can force an update and the program when it's 
> currently running.  This can prevent packages from getting half updated 
> before running into an can't over writing file error.  Obviously the 
> option to kill the process will have to be used carefully.

WPKG Installer (http://wpkg.org/files/wpkg-installer.zip) has nothing to 
do with XML files.
It merely sets up the workstation to start WPKG (that is, "cscript 
\\path\to\wpkg.js /flags", with correct credentials etc.).


To kill processes, you can use "taskkill" command on Windows XP, there 
are other tools with which you could check if the process is running.


> Another idea is to have a global settings xml file to set global 
> variables and enable/disable features.  For instance some administrators 
> may want to be able to globably disable the ability to kill a running 
> process as I just outlined.  It may also be a cleaner place to store the 
> default runtime flags and path variables rather than having a bat file 
> involved.

Maybe in the future, if more users need it, we'll think about it.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org






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