[wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

[Kevin Keane]

The first request should be fairly easy to do: just add only one application at a time to your profiles. This is good practice anyway - if something goes wrong with an installation, you would want one application messed up, not dozens.

If you buy a new computer that needs everything installed at once: turn on that computer for the first time in your lab and let it sit there for a day to install all your applications.



For the second request, you could set up WPKG using task scheduler to run only once per week. Schedule it to run on Monday on some computers, Tuesday on some others, and so on.

Alternatively, create a new profile just for the new application. Every day, update the hosts file by adding the new profile to a few more hosts. You can do that with a script that runs nightly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-
> bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of simplesi
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:20 AM
> To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run
> 
> 
> I've a need for some sort of mechanism to just deploy one package at a
> time
> at each run of wpkg.js.
> 
> Some packages (Anti-virus, service packs etc) can take a long time to
> install and I'd like to have WPKG just do one of these packages on one
> run
> of wpkg.js (e.g. one package the 1st time and then the next package on
> the
> next run).
> 
> Is there an easy way of doing this at the moment?
> 
> The other big wish is to have big (as in long time to install) packages
> be
> installed in sequence -e.g. The 2Simple Total Software package takes
> about
> 30 mins to install - I don't want all the computers in a suite to sit
> there
> for this time the next day but I wouldn't mind 1 or a few of them to do
> the
> install.  But I don't want to have to keep altering host/profile files
> each
> day.
> 
> Any ideas on how to achieve this one? :)
> 
> regards
> 
> Simon
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