[wpkg-users] wpkg: proposed changes to <download> tag

[Kevin Keane]

I like these ideas. I would like to have another related enhancement:

Wpkg.js /download

Should only do a download but not install or remove anything.

Wpkg.js ... /nodownload

Should perform install operations but skip any download tags.

In order for this to make sense, your proposed changes would also be required.

Use case: the download could be done once on the server that wpkg runs off of and doesn't have to be done on each individual workstation.

Advantages:


-          Bandwidth saving

-          when using wpkg in a startup script, a download can eat dramatically into the startup script timeout.

From: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Andy Welch
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:24 AM
To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] wpkg: proposed changes to <download> tag



Hi, proposed, appreciated feedback

<download
           Type="[http], get"
           url=""
           path=""
           target="[@]subpath"
           cleanup="success, always, never"
/>

Where


*         Type controls whether this is an http get (as currently implemented) or a filesystem copy

*         Path filesystem copy from

*         Target - if prefixed by @ this is an absolute path, otherwise, as currently implemented, subfolder to %TEMP%
for example, I wish to use %LOCALDOWNLOADS% for all download operations

*         Cleanup - when, the target is deleted on success, always or never

Thanks

Andy Welch


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