[wpkg-users] Regex in depend tag? Or other method?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Robin Roevens schrieb:
> 
> Hello all
> 
> I'm fairly new to WPKG and considering to use it so at the moment I'm 
> designing the packages and profiles that I'm hoping to use...
> But I stumbled on a practical problem: Some computers have/need firefox 
> 1.5 and some have/need firefox 3.x .. So I have 2 packages: firefox15 
> and firefox3
> But then I also have AdobeFlash-firefoxplugin as a package, which 
> depends on firefox.. Can you already see my problem here?
> 
> Is there a way for this package to depend on firefox15 OR firefox3 
> whatever is installed without having to create 2 seperate packages with 
> the dependancy as the only difference.
> I was thinking about using a regex "firefox.+", but since it is nowhere 
> documented, I assume it is not implemented in wpkg either and regexes 
> only work on hosts?
> Or is there some other decent method to handle this problem?

Currently, there is no regex support in package dependencies.

Technically, you could add such a line to both firefox packages:

<install cmd="\\path\to\browserplugins.bat" />

(and a proper check for a plugin if you want).

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Tomasz Chmielewski
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