Great, thank you very much!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:23 PM, John Danks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.danks@gmail.com">john.danks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
It looks like you can have as many arbitrarily named variables as you like.<br>
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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Kenny Bayless <<a href="mailto:kbayless@gmail.com">kbayless@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ok, now it's time for my Doh! moment...<br>
><br>
> When we first configured WPKG with test packages, the SOFTWARE variable was<br>
> not entirely clear to us. Plus, we had (and still have) several places<br>
> there the software installers reside. So instead we used UNC paths. Of<br>
> course, now the practicality of the varialbe is clear! Just a quick check -<br>
> is it possible to set more than one SOFTWARE variable in settings.XML? Say<br>
> - SOFTWARE1 to one location, SOFTWARE2 to another, etc. Now that we are in<br>
> limbo, it's a great opportunity to correct this mistake...<br>
><br>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:12 PM, John Danks <<a href="mailto:john.danks@gmail.com">john.danks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> What do your package definitions look like? Are you using WPKG Client?<br>
>> How is it configured?<br>
>><br>
>> It's best-practice to declare a variable in the settings.xml that<br>
>> points to the server share for package files, and then use that<br>
>> instead of hardcoding server paths in packages.xml.<br>
>><br>
>> <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\apps\firefox\Firefox Setup %version%.exe" -ms'<br>
>> /><br>
>><br>
>> It would also be a good idea to configure WPKG Client to look for<br>
>> wpkg.js at a generic name such as \\wpkg\wpkg.js and use a CNAME<br>
>> record in DNS to alias the "wpkg" hostname to whatever server actually<br>
>> holds the files. (I didn't do this but now I think I should...)<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Kenny Bayless <<a href="mailto:kbayless@gmail.com">kbayless@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > Please excuse the n00b question... I'm sure there is a simple answer...<br>
>> ><br>
>> > We have several packages installed with WPKG, and all has been running<br>
>> > nicely. However, recently we had to change fileservers, and now all the<br>
>> > local WPKG.XML files point to the previous server. Is there a simple<br>
>> > way to<br>
>> > simply refresh the local XML files?<br>
>> ><br>
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