[wpkg-users] Greetings and some questions about wpkg

Stefan Pendl stefan.pendl.71 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 21:03:35 CEST 2013


Am 01.10.2013 10:32, schrieb laurent COOPER:
> There is a thing I don't understand. When the hosts file is parsed, does the parser use the first match for the host and use its profiles, or does the parser use all matching profiles
>
> For example, if I have
> <host name="b.+" profile-id="profile1" />
> <host name="bron.+" profile-id="profile2" />
>
> and the host bronie
>
> will it match the first and use only profile1
> OR
> will it match both and use profile1 AND profile2 ?
>
> Can I have also two entries for the same host ?
> <host name="bronie" profile-id="profile1"/>
> <host name="bronie" profile-id="profile2"/>
>
> will it give
>    - an error
>    - only profile 2
>    - only profile 1
>    - both profiles
>
> ** About the packages...
>
> I'd rather keep individual packages for my networks. Is there a way to have them in subdirectories
>
> packages / sub1/ ...
> 	/ sub2 / ...
>
> or is it only possible to have one packages directory ?
>
>
The way profiles are applied can be changed with a config.xml entry in 
the latest version of WPKG.
See "applyMultiple" for some explanation.

Why keep multiple packages for the same software?

You can always use separate WPKG installations, if you really need to 
separate things that way.


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