[wpkg-users] Fwd: Refer to Profile in Install command?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:

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> Msiexec /i myinstaller.msi /qb TARGET_ENVIRONMENT=QA
> 
> Msiexec /i myinstaller.msi /qb TARGET_ENVIRONMENT=DEV
> 
> Msiexec /i myinstaller.msi /qb TARGET_ENVIRONMENT=PRODUCTION
> 
> 
> 
> My thought was to use different profiles for each type of environment 
> and associate them with hosts.
> 
> 
> 
> We have hundreds of installers and use a small batch command to run 
> through them in groups, but I still need a way to pass in the 
> TARGET_ENVIRONMENT setting each time.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to refer to a profile name in other sections of WPKG? I'd 
> like to be able to do something like this:
> 
> 
> 
> Msiexec /i myinstaller.msi /qb TARGET_ENVIRONMENT=$(current.profile)
> 
> 
> 
> ... so the command can be as generic as possible.

Answering to myself: there is no obvious way to do it right now.

You may do a couple of .xml files for each profile, or a batch file that 
makes some detection.


It would be nice to have such a feature, for reference, I posted it 
here: http://bugs.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69

Don't expect it to be implemented too fast though.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


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