[wpkg-users] Refresh local WKPG.XML

[John Danks]

It looks like you can have as many arbitrarily named variables as you like.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Kenny Bayless <kbayless at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, now it's time for my Doh! moment...
>
> When we first configured WPKG with test packages, the SOFTWARE variable was
> not entirely clear to us.  Plus, we had (and still have) several places
> there the software installers reside.  So instead we used UNC paths.  Of
> course, now the practicality of the varialbe is clear!  Just a quick check -
> is it possible to set more than one SOFTWARE variable in settings.XML?  Say
> - SOFTWARE1 to one location, SOFTWARE2 to another, etc.  Now that we are in
> limbo, it's a great opportunity to correct this mistake...
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:12 PM, John Danks <john.danks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What do your package definitions look like? Are you using WPKG Client?
>> How is it configured?
>>
>> It's best-practice to declare a variable in the settings.xml that
>> points to the server share for package files, and then use that
>> instead of hardcoding server paths in packages.xml.
>>
>> <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\apps\firefox\Firefox Setup %version%.exe" -ms'
>> />
>>
>> It would also be a good idea to configure WPKG Client to look for
>> wpkg.js at a generic name such as \\wpkg\wpkg.js and use a CNAME
>> record in DNS to alias the "wpkg" hostname to whatever server actually
>> holds the files. (I didn't do this but now I think I should...)
>>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Kenny Bayless <kbayless at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Please excuse the n00b question... I'm sure there is a simple answer...
>> >
>> > We have several packages installed with WPKG, and all has been running
>> > nicely.  However, recently we had to change fileservers, and now all the
>> > local WPKG.XML files point to the previous server.  Is there a simple
>> > way to
>> > simply refresh the local XML files?
>> >
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