> Hi, > > my organization is composed by many offices. The majority of them is on > LAN, but there are another connected via ADSL to the LAN. > > So, you know that installing the 140MB OpenOffice 3.1 on ADSL is painfully > slow. > > In all machines WPKG does the install/upgrade at shutdown. > > A nice feature would be the possibility to use a startup script that > downloads the openoffice package in background from a shared folder, but I > don't know if WPKG permits to execute user defined scripts at startup (I > have configured it to run at shutdown)? > Sounds familiar... I have 16 schools all using WPKG for software deployment. Each site has a local NAS where software installation files are held, this NAS also holds a local copy of the wpkg files and the hosts/profile xml files. I use DropBox on a PC at each site - this synchronises files and folders across all my sites so I just drop a new software package in my local folder and all sites begin to download this to their site. I then use LogMeIn Free on a PC at each site to log in and copy the downloaded files to the local NAS, update the profile.xml file for the new software and that's it all done. Aside from purchasing a NAS for each site, the rest of this is free (DropBox is limited to 2GBytes storage for the free version) and has worked well for around 6 months now. I don't think the auto-download of software is something wpkg itself should be handling, if you can have local storage at each site then a NAS or similar network drive is perhaps the easiest option? Chris _________________________________________________________________ Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one place. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20091006/44b9aeca/attachment.html> |