[wpkg-users] Can't have download functionnality working

[Nicolas LEBRUN]

Thanks Rainer, for this answer...

Actually, I think I won't use wpkg_web anymore ... or try to see if a 
minor adaptation of wpkg-web could repair...

Just hope another front-end to wpkg will appear ... In fact, I 
personnaly don't need it but some admins in our high schools would 
appreciate...

Best regards

Nicolas

Rainer Meier a écrit :
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> Nicolas LEBRUN wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>> I'am a new user of wpkg ( version 1.1M6) with wpkg_web. I'm using the 
>> wpkg-client 1.3.6 on the client ... Everything is OK.
> 
> Wpkg_web is currently not under active development not.
> 
> 
>> But i can't find any way to have the download functionnality working.
> 
> Right - quite sure it's related to wpkg_web usage. The download feature
> within wpkg_web has been implemented without WPKG support (or there
> might be some support within an older 0.xx release. Note that WPKG has
> been almost completely rewritten for version 1.0 (and version 1.0 did
> not include the download feature).
> WPKG 1.1.x pre-release contains a download feature but it's implemented
> slightly differently and more robust than the way wpkg_web was thinking
> about it. The syntax is described within the change notes:
> 
> examples:
>  <package...>
>  <download url="http://example.org/package.exe" target="package.exe" />
>  <install cmd="%TEMP%\file.exe some arguments" ...>
>    <download url="http://example.org/file.exe" target="file.exe" />
>  </install>
>  <install cmd="%TEMP%\file2.exe some arguments" ...>
>    <download url="http://example.org/file2.exe" target="file2.exe" />
>  </install>
>  <upgrade cmd="%TEMP%\update.exe arguments" ...>
>    <download url="http://example.org/update.exe" target="update.exe" />
>  </upgrade>
>  </package>
> 
> 
> As you can see the download command is part of the "command" section
> now. Not part of the global section.
> 
> So unfortunately the way wpgk_web is creating download information is
> incompatible with the implementation in WPKG.
> In any case I strongly suggest not to use the download feature and use
> SMB/CIFS shares instead. This is considered to be much more robust way
> of deployment than downloading packages via HTTP.
> 
> If you really want to use it (at no support of course) then you need to
> write your XML files manually or export them from wpkg_web and extend
> them manually.
> 
> 
> Another possibility might be to use a CMD script during installation
> which is using "wget" or a similar tool to download files before
> installing them.
> 
> br,
> Rainer
> 
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