[wpkg-users] reboot definition per host

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Florian Effenberger schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering how rebooting at the shutdown is handled.

No special handling here.


> WPKG Client
> 1.3.5 seems to be able to install packages not at startup, but at
> shutdown. How does it deal with reboots then? Can five packages where
> each packages require a reboot be installed that way, or has the
> machine to be shut down five times then?

If you configure to make five reboots, then five reboots will be made.

See also http://wpkg.org/Rebooting - "rebooting behaviour" is quite 
flexible.


> If so, I'd suggest adding a reboot definition per host, so all hosts
> that install at shutdown (like laptops with buggy RealTek cards) don't
> reboot.

Currently, there is no such functionality built in and it's not planned.

See "Conditional reboot" thread from today for a possible solution by 
Rainer Meier.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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