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

[Matthew Janulewicz]

Cool, thanks. As long as I know the answer I can work around it. Just
wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something obvious.


-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Tomasz Chmielewski [mailto:mangoo at wpkg.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:50 AM
To: wpkg
Cc: Matthew Janulewicz
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Fwd: Refer to Profile in Install command?

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:

(...)

> 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.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org