[wpkg-users] How do you handle 'plugins' e.g. Flash etc?

[Pendl Stefan]

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> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> With the frequent amount of updates for things like Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, Sun Java etc, how do you all handle these?
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> Chris
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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.

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Stefan