[wpkg-users] Automatic Updates

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Tue Feb 20 00:12:38 CET 2007


Formoso, Travis schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> New to WPKG and have been successful with it up until trying to get automatic updates to run. I am running a Samba File server to push everything out to everyone.
> 
> It says on the directions: Note that you will need Unattended on your server. I downloaded the zip and extracted it to my server share. Is there more I need to do with this? The unattended folder is located on the server now. 
> 
> I have installed perl on my testing machine as it said to do in the instructions. My code is as follows: 
> 
> <package
>    id="windowsupdates"
>    name="Windows Updates"
>    revision="1"
>    reboot="false"
>    priority="10">
> 
>    <install cmd='C:\Perl\bin\perl %SOFTWARE%\unattended\install\bin\auconfig.pl 3' />
>    <upgrade cmd='C:\Perl\bin\perl %SOFTWARE%\unattended\install\bin\auconfig.pl 3' />
> 
> When I run the debug script I get the error:
> 
> Package name: Windows Updates
> 
> Could not install Windows Updates. Failed checking after installation.

Note that you will need Unattended on your server, and Perl on your 
workstations (it comes by default if you deploy Windows with 
Unattended), as described here:

http://wpkg.org/index.php/Automatic_Updates

Also, pay attention to the XML, as your copy is incorrect (missing "once").


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org






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