> > Hi all, > > I rolled out WPKG across 16 sites during the past 8 months. It's working really well but occasionally I hit a problem with some plugins (e.g. Flash > Player) whereby the user will initiate an update themselves, meaning that when WPKG next runs it detects that the version in the package xml file is > not installed, initiates an installation but can then hang because a hidden screen is not shown with a relevant message about newer version already > > being installed, that type of thing. > > With the frequent amount of updates for things like Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, Sun Java etc, how do you all handle these? > > Chris > This is one reason why I requested the support for regular expression matching for uninstall strings, which is included in WPKG 1.1.2 I use this to get rid of version strings included in uninstall display names, so the match works. In addition I check for the correct version of the main executable of the package or create my own registry keys to check against. The file version check is always done "version-greater-or-equal", so uses can install higher versions, if they have the right to do so. If I update the package to the latest version, there is usually no problem, since the same version would be installed. --- Stefan |