[wpkg-users] test packages upgrades

[Bill Prentice]

What I have done is set up two different profiles with normally identical contents. One profile is for production machines and one is for my test machine. In the hosts.xml I have the test machine host assigned to the test profile. When I want to test something I change the profile definition and restart the wpkg service on the test machine (I have a powershell script which I use for this). If everything is good, I then change the production profile to match the test profile.

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Kind regards,
 
Bill Prentice

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From: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Jason Oster
Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 09:50
To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] test packages upgrades

On 12/20/2009 01:44 AM, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> how can i do to test packages upgrades on only one test machine before 
> to propagate the upgrade to all others production machines?
>
> thanks in advance

I've been meaning to set up a second share directory on my Samba server with WPKG packages. My test workstation would check-in with that directory instead of the normal one. Use symlinks for the software and most of the XML packages; use real files only when testing.

I don't have detailed information, sorry. But there is more information on this kind of idea in the list archives somewhere!

Good luck