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> Hi,<BR>> <BR>> my organization is composed by many offices. The majority of them is on<BR>> LAN, but there are another connected via ADSL to the LAN.<BR>> <BR>> So, you know that installing the 140MB OpenOffice 3.1 on ADSL is painfully<BR>> slow.<BR>> <BR>> In all machines WPKG does the install/upgrade at shutdown.<BR>> <BR>> A nice feature would be the possibility to use a startup script that<BR>> downloads the openoffice package in background from a shared folder, but I<BR>> don't know if WPKG permits to execute user defined scripts at startup (I<BR>> have configured it to run at shutdown)?<BR>> <BR><BR>
Sounds familiar...<BR>
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I have 16 schools all using WPKG for software deployment. Each site has a local NAS where software installation files are held, this NAS also holds a local copy of the wpkg files and the hosts/profile xml files.<BR>
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I use DropBox on a PC at each site - this synchronises files and folders across all my sites so I just drop a new software package in my local folder and all sites begin to download this to their site.<BR>
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I then use LogMeIn Free on a PC at each site to log in and copy the downloaded files to the local NAS, update the profile.xml file for the new software and that's it all done.<BR>
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Aside from purchasing a NAS for each site, the rest of this is free (DropBox is limited to 2GBytes storage for the free version) and has worked well for around 6 months now.<BR>
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I don't think the auto-download of software is something wpkg itself should be handling, if you can have local storage at each site then a NAS or similar network drive is perhaps the easiest option?<BR>
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