[wpkg-users] [Bug 149] Specify prerequisites for a package

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http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149





--- Comment #7 from Erik Langeland <erik.langeland at silvacom.com>  2009-03-30 22:57:45 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> As I said a custom "execute" check can be configured already now. This check
> could verify if the application should be applied on the system. If not, it
> just returns exit code 0 to tell WPKG that the package is already installed.

Just to be clear, here you are referring to an <install> element running a
script command and that script checking the prerequisite status, right?

As for your concern about whether wpkg would re-run the prerequisite checks on
every run, I would just like to point out that this method will also result in
the prerequisite checks (in an install script) running on every execution of
WPKG.

It sounds like you have a fairly simple environment. I have an environment
where I already have about 12 to 15 top-level profiles (i.e. ones assigned to
hosts) for different business units and PC roles, each of which need different
sets of software and another dozen "common applications" profiles on which the
top-level profiles depend. I am concerned about the profile bloat of having 30
to 40 top-level profiles if each of the existing ones needs different versions
to support XP, Vista-32, and Vista-64, not to mention Windows 7.

Finally, to clarify my earlier comment, I was only foreseeing two types of
checks: the existing installation check and a new prerequisite check.

Thanks,

Erik


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