[wpkg-users] setting variables depending on hostnames

[Stefan Pendl]

Am 29.11.2011 05:27, schrieb Chris Mortimer:
> Hello Peter,
>
> Personally, I would have a central text file (on the wpkg server) that contains lines like:
>
> Hostname:serial number
>
> I'd then write a script that would be run before the Acrobat install line in your xml file. This script would read through the central text file, looking for the provided hostname - first argument to the script, and return the serial number. If this script is ran for a dos For command, you could then assign the serial number to a variable which you'd then add to your Acrobat install line. Yes, it would require writing something to do some file reading and return a value but at least you can use the same xml file everywhere and maintain one central config file.
>

It is not needed to complicate things by introducing an additional 
parser, since this can be done already with the latest WPKG release 
candidate available at 
http://wpkg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wpkg/wpkg/stable/src/main/resources/wpkg/ 
.

You can do something along the following lines:

'---code start (watch for line wraps)

<profile id="AcrobatSerials">
     <variable name="ACROBAT_SERIAL" value="..." hostname="office1"/>
     <variable name="ACROBAT_SERIAL" value="..." hostname="office2"/>
     <variable name="ACROBAT_SERIAL" value="..." hostname="office3"/>
     <variable name="ACROBAT_SERIAL" value="..." hostname="office4"/>
     ...
</profile>

'---code end

--
Stefan P.

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