[wpkg-users] Refresh local WKPG.XML

[Kenny Bayless]

Great, thank you very much!

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:23 PM, John Danks <john.danks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Kenny Bayless
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> > --
> > Kenny Bayless
> >
>



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Kenny Bayless
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