[wpkg-users] WPKG Client v1.0rc6 & WPKG 1.0-rc8 - enviromental variable

[Paul Griffith]

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>



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