[wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run

Pendl Stefan stefan.pendl at haidlmair.at
Thu Nov 12 13:59:15 CET 2009


>
> I've a need for some sort of mechanism to just deploy one
> package at a time
> at each run of wpkg.js.
>
> Some packages (Anti-virus, service packs etc) can take a long time to
> install and I'd like to have WPKG just do one of these
> packages on one run
> of wpkg.js (e.g. one package the 1st time and then the next
> package on the
> next run).
>
> Is there an easy way of doing this at the moment?
>
> The other big wish is to have big (as in long time to
> install) packages be
> installed in sequence -e.g. The 2Simple Total Software
> package takes about
> 30 mins to install - I don't want all the computers in a
> suite to sit there
> for this time the next day but I wouldn't mind 1 or a few of
> them to do the
> install.  But I don't want to have to keep altering
> host/profile files each
> day.
>
> Any ideas on how to achieve this one? :)
>
> regards
>
> Simon

To install packages one-by-one, you could force a reboot with the reboot attribute of the package.

---
Stefan



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