[wpkg-users] WPKG - issues

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Alex Owen schrieb:
> Now I am subscribed...
> 
> On 03/04/07, Alex Owen <r.alex.owen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> WPKG looks to be a very nice piece of software!
>>
>> I have been trying to intergrate it in to an unattended(the project)

Unattended from unattended.sf.net?


>> install of wxpsp2.
>> I'm not a fan of the GuiRunOnce+autologin type thing... so I was
>> looking at cmdlines.txt which runs juts before the reboot leading to
>> GuiRunOnce. My plan was to install WPKGsetup.msi from cmdlines.txt and
>> then after the reboot  WPKG delays login and installs the rest of my
>> software/config.
>>
>> There are 2 problems with this approach:
>> (1) you can't install msi packaged software from cmdlines.txt {why?}

What is the purpose of using cmdlines.txt (with which I'm not familiar 
BTW) if you use unattended.sf.net?


>> (2) the delayed login thing currently has a bug where WPKG can't reboot.
>>
>> I gather that (2) is being worked on.

Yes.
As a workaround, you can use an alternative reboot method (wpkg.js 
allows that: on XP use a shutdown.exe command bundled with a system, on 
2000 a 3rd party tool of your choice).


>> I have not tested (1) yet but it is in the docs  that cmdlines.txt wan't do MSI.
>> As I see it we could create a zip archive (for distrib purposes) which
>> uses a script to copy the components into the right places and
>> registers the WPKGservice  and login.dll.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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