[wpkg-users] Stopping installations being called each time WPKG runs...

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Chris Wilcox schrieb:

> That gets me to my question - the commercial system I use will never 
> initiate a package installation if the local and network ini file says 
> that the package is already installed.  With WPKG, it seems you MUST 
> specifiy conditions to prevent this occuring?  Most of the software I 
> use is educational stuff and is not listed in any of the WPKG silent 
> installer pages - it can often be quite difficult to work out what 
> condition syntax to use to prevent installs repeating at each 
> workstation boot - MSI's handle this a little better as they don't 
> normally repeat the whole install, but many exe based installations 
> insist on re-installing even if the app is already on.
>  
> Am I missing something obvious here?  Should WPKG try to repeat installs 
> at every boot if the package does not have any condition syntax?

You missed this one:

http://wpkg.org/Execute_once_/_always

Does it solve your problem?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski