[wpkg-users] Using several profiles

[Daniel Dehennin]

Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org> writes:

> I really don't see the reason for it at the moment. If you would like to 
> assign multiple profiles hard-coded to a host then you could do that 
> using hosts.xml. Why are people afraid that their host.xml grows a bit more?
> If you use a different /profile switch on each host then this settings 
> are hard-coded on the client and much more difficult to change later
> on. 

I was not aware of that.

> I am absolutely sure it is more convenient to have the definition within 
> the hosts.xml and let WPKG chose the right host definition by exact host 
> match. If some "group" of hosts belong to the same profile like 
> "graphics workstation" or similar, then just use a naming convention. 
> Windows can do that by itself when installing new workstations. It can 
> prefix the name with a pre-defined string so you could use a rule like 
> "gfx.*" to match all of them.
> And do not complain about that you would have to rename the workstations 
> which are already in use. Renaming a workstation is not really more 
> effort than setting a custom WPKG command line on each machine.
> If you use the techniques of WPKG (define hosts in hosts.xml) then you 
> can even change the assigned profiles later on - which is impossible if 
> the profile is hard-coded on the client.
>
> So the answer at the moment is no. I don't think I will implement such a 
> feature which potentially causes confusion, misunderstandings and 
> problems while there is already something available which supports all 
> requirements.

Ok, no problem, thanks.
-- 
Daniel Dehennin
RAIP de l'Orne