Hello Malte, >>> i found out how to install xampp silently, >> would you please share it with us, creating a corresponding page at >> wpkg.org? Thanx. > Hi Falko, > i am new to wpkg, very new. I use it since this week. You're welcome! > I will have a look at how to create a page at wpkg.org, but first i > think i should find out how to update xampp. > Anyway, silent installation is done by: > xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe -dC:\ -s1 -spauto > By this, xampp is installed/copied into c:\xampp Ok, so let's take this as an example ... > >> There's a file \xampp\xampp-changes.txt with the version of xampp in the >> first line, >> perhaps you could extract it from there or just use the date of that >> file for checking. > I have no clue how to do that. Is text extraction and comparison > anywhere documented? > Don't think so. The best solution is checking the version of a certain file within the xampp folder. Or, your package could create a "version-1.7.3.txt" file, so if that doesn't exist, the package should be installed/upgraded. Regarding http://wpkg.org/Packages.xml#File - there's no check for file date - sorry, I misremembered that. Perhaps we could make that a feature request. The best solution would be to find a file (exe/dll) which has a version number which changes with every new xampp version. So you could use e.g. <check type="file" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="%SystemDrive%\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe" value="2.2.14" /> So your xampp package could look like this (untested): <package id="pkgxampp" name="Xampp 1.7.3" revision="1730" reboot="false" priority="100"> <check type="file" condition="exists" path="C:\xampp\version-1.7.3.txt" /> <check type="file" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="C:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe" value="2.2.14" /> <install cmd="%COMSPEC% /c %SOFTWARE%\xampp\xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe -dC:\ -s1 -spauto "/> <install cmd="%COMSPEC% /c echo ok >c:\xampp\version-1.7.3.txt"/> <upgrade cmd="%COMSPEC% /c %SOFTWARE%\xampp\xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe -dC:\ -s1 -spauto "/> <upgrade cmd="%COMSPEC% /c echo ok >c:\xampp\version-1.7.3.txt"/> <remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /c rmdir /q /s "C:\xampp\" '> <exit code="any" /> </remove> <remove cmd="%COMSPEC% /c del /f /q c:\xampp\version-1.7.3.txt" > <exit code="any" /> </remove> </package> Just a few remarks: - the checks are "AND" (not "OR") - so using one of them is enough - I don't know the silent remove command for xampp, so just use the right one instead of "rmdir ..." - I choose 1730 for revision, so you could count your package versions up 1731, 1732 ... for testing without loosing the xampp revision number Good luck and have a nice weekend Falko |