[wpkg-users] User GUI for WPKG-GP

[Nils Thiele]

Hello Falko,

No problem :)

Yeah i guess there are many more bugs in the updatefile generator cause 
there are so many more options for packages
that i may have never used in our organisation and so there is no 
support for them.

Besides that there is also no error logging implemented.


BUT....

Implemeting the query function (for updates, installs, downgrades and 
removes) into wpkg-gp was way easier than i thought.
Fixed a bug in wpkg-gp as well that i stumbled upon a few times allready 
in the past that always bugged me.

I allready have a running version of the client to parse this new 
information but not sure yet how to display it since the windows 
notifications bubbles are quite limited. (formatting text) would have 
loved to color them depending on the task but this is not possible and 
creating my own notifications in wxpython create all kinds of other 
problems.

Anyway, expect a test release with the updated wpkg-gp and client later 
this week!

Best Regards,

Nils


Am 13.09.2016 um 13:12 schrieb Falko Trojahn:
> Hello Nils,
>
>
>
> first: many thanx for your efforts - your "taskbar updater" is the tool
>
> we ever wanted, but never asked for ;)
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Regarding the generated update xml:
>>
>>  We have quite the uniform structure regarding os and software in our
>>
>> organisation so i didnt really thought about this problem. I had the
>>
>> idea you mentioned (using wpkg to query the updates) before but i
>>
>> ditched it because i didnt wanted to mess with wpkg-gp in any way
>> when
>>
>> i started the project.
>>
>
>
> The creation of the packages.xml is the problem here, too - we'd need
> to
>
> run the python script on our samba server; the
> create_the_package_ver.exe
>
> even produces an error here on our windows 7 test client:
>
>
>
>
>
> Y:\packages\wpkg-gp-client\create_pkg_ver_list2>create_pkg_ver_list.exe
>
> -f Y:\ -o test.xml
>
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>
>
>   File "create_pkg_ver_list.py", line 83, in <module>
>
>
>
>   File "create_pkg_ver_list.py", line 44, in create_package_list
>
>
>
>   File "<string>", line 62, in parse
>
>
>
>   File "<string>", line 38, in parse
>
>
>
> cElementTree.ParseError: undefined entity &tb-extension;: line 2,
> column 10
>
>
>
> Failed to execute script create_pkg_ver_list
>
>
>
>
>
> Is there a way to get a log of this run - e.g. to see which of
>
> our xml files leads to this error? Wait, I see: the "undefined entity"
> error
>
> comes from the "templating way" xmls for the thunderbird extensions.
>
>
>
>
>
>>  Since i ended up creating my own fork anyway this is a good idea and
>>
>> it would also fix the problem of not being able to query newly
>>
>> installed packages, tho i wonder how big the impact on the wpkg
>> server
>>
>> would be if you do this i alot (im not an expert on this topic).
>>
>>
>>
>>  I will definatly look into this but it will take a bit longer since
>> i
>>
>> have to mess more with other peoples code :)
>>
>
>
> From time to time we check the correct install/update/removes of all
>
> clients using "wpkgCreateReport" .js tool from "gig mbh Berlin".
>
> May be this could be another way to create the packages.xml server
> side,
>
> since the information provided is per client - perhaps a good starting
>
> point.
>
>
>
> Nevertheless, the "wpkg.js /query" way is IMHO the way to go, even
>
> if it is run locally once an hour or twice a day this would be
> sufficient
>
> and should not give too much load on the server.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>  Thanks for the feedback!
>>
> on this page
>
>  https://github.com/sonicnkt/wpkg-gp-client/wiki/Installation-and-Usage
>
> the link to
>
>
> https://github.com/sonicnkt/wpkg-gp-client/blob/master/wpkg-gp_client.ini
>
> gives a 404 error ...
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Falko
>
>
>
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