[wpkg-users] Strange behavior of WPKG Client

[Falko Trojahn]

Hi again,

> I understood that it's not normal behavior. Usually the clients will have
> only one profile (the standard application one) on which i will chain all
> the packges one by one.
>
> The multiple profile issue was caused by the fact that in order to test one
> specific package i had to add an entry to the hosts.xml file in order to
> make that one package apply only to my machine, and there i noticed that
> only the first host line was parsed, so testing was difficult.
Yes. In this case you can do:

     <host name="yourpcname" profile-id="default" >
         <profile id="testprofile" />
     </host>


>
> Now that i know that using the applymultiple flag i can bypass the issue,
> there's no need for me to create a profiles folder with X profiles and a
> hosts folder with X folders, using the default files is enough.
>
> The only thing that i don't get is why WPKG always checks if WPKG_Client
> package is installed, since now my conf is:
>
> hosts.xml
> ==================================
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <wpkg>
> 	
> 	<host name="MYPC" profile-id="IncrediBuild Agent" />
> 	
> 	<host group="Domain Computers" profile-id="Standard Applications" />
>
> </wpkg>
> ==================================
>
> profiles.xml
> ==================================
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <profiles>
>
> 	<profile id="WPKG_Client">	
> 		<package package-id="WPKG_Client" />
> 	</profile>
>
>          <profile id="Standard Applications">		
> 		<package package-id="7-Zip" />		
> 	</profile>
> 		
> 	<profile id="IncrediBuild Agent">	
> 		<package package-id="IncrediBuild Agent" />
> 	</profile>
> 		
> </profiles>
> ==================================
>
> The WPKG_Client profile is not invoked in the hosts.xml file, is only
> invoked by the domain startup script (the one you suggested to modify adding
> an if line).
You shouldn't remove your "WPKG_Client" package from default profile for 
all hosts - wpkg compares what is installed to what it should
install according to profiles<->hosts association.

So I would expect WPKG_Client to be deinstalled if it is not assigned to 
each host!!

BR,
Falko