[wpkg-users] mutlple profiles for 1 client

[Jacob Jarick]

Id expect WS001 to match profile 1 and 2 as the regexp will match the
host name.

WS00.*  profile1
.*      profile2

is this possible ? or it it strictly 1 regexp match per host ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rainer Meier [mailto:r.meier at wpkg.org] 
Sent: Monday, 30 November 2009 3:58 PM
To: Jacob Jarick
Cc: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] mutlple profiles for 1 client

Hi Jacob,

Jacob Jarick wrote:
> I have the following hosts listed:
> 
> WS00.*  profile1
> .*      profile2
> 
> profile2 is never applied to the host WS001. if I reverse the hosts 
> positions in the file / frontend profile1 is never applied.

Yes, this is exactly what you tell WPKG to do. Both definitions you use
are regular expressions. The first one (WS00.*) will match all host
names match contain WS00... Thus matching WS001 too. So WPKG will start
from top matching the profiles and it will find your WS00.* definition
and discover it matches. So
profile1 is assigned to the host.

For Hosts named WS01 the first definition will not match so WPKG
continues to look for a matching definition - here the second one ".*"
will match and profile
2 gets assigned.

If you want to assign multiple profiles to one host then I recommend
creating a "meta-profile" (e.g. profile-WS00) which depends on profile1
and profile2, so packages of both profiles get included. Then of course
assign the profile-WS00 to the first host definition.

If this is not what you're looking for please state your naming
conventions and what you would like to achieve so we might be able to
help you to find the right configuration.

br,
Rainer