On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:10:16 -0400, Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org> wrote: > Hi Paul, > >> WPKG installed a few packages (Acrobat Pro, Visual Studio 2005) but >> the other packages it totaly skipped. It look like wpkg-1.0-rc8 had >> issues with the enviromental variable '%SOFTWARE%'. In most of the >> failed installation wpkg complains that it can't find the install file. > > Hmm, I am using the %SOFTWARE% variable as well. However it is not set > by WPKG but by WPKG-Client. It looks quite strange to me that simply > replacing wpkg.js with 0.9.x seems to fix the problem for you (without > changing WPKG-client). As far as I remember the method to evaluate > environment variables did not change. > >> If I move the .9.10 version of wpkg back into place and reboot, the >> skipped installations continue. I am going to troubleshoot this issue >> some more. > > Could you post an export of the WPKG-client settings (XML export)? > > br, > Rainer Here is the settings for WPKG client. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <file>\\ntinstall\wpkg\wpkg.js</file> <path-user>DOMAIN\wpkg</path-user> <path-password>--------</path-password> <exec-user>SYSTEM</exec-user><exec-password></exec-password> <parameters>/synchronize /nonotify /quiet</parameters> <silent>YES</silent> <pre-action></pre-action> <post-action></post-action> <show-GUI>NO</show-GUI> <logon-delay>2</logon-delay> <logon-message-1>CSE Technical Support is installing applications and applying settings...</logon-message-1> <logon-message-2>Please wait, don't restart or power off your computer...</logon-message-2> <script-variable name="SOFTWARE">\\ntinstall\wpkg\software</script-variable> <script-variable name="WPKGROOT">\\ntinstall\wpkg</script-variable> <script-variable name="WINLANG">enu</script-variable> <priority>normal</priority> <stop-service-after-done>NO</stop-service-after-done> <laptop-mode>NO</laptop-mode> <server-connecting-method>standard</server-connecting-method> <server-connecting-ip></server-connecting-ip> <server-connecting-timeout>3</server-connecting-timeout> <server-connecting-script-timeout>3</server-connecting-script-timeout> <server-connecting-script-file></server-connecting-script-file> </configuration> -- Paul Griffith |Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering - York University CSE Technical Team |4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J-1P3 paulg at cse.yorku.ca |CSE1003A|Tel: 416-736-2100 x70258|Fax: 416-736-5872 |