[wpkg-users] Breaking package inheritance

[Daniel Dehennin]

Falko Trojahn <nospam_ft at smi-softmark.de> writes:

> I'm sorry, but this would just break a lot of things in wpkg, and I
> think there have been discussions about that on the list some time ago.
>
> Just keep it simple:
>
> - Standard Profile
>   * all common things here
>
> - Basic Profile, depends on Standard Profile
>   * has Acrobat Reader
>
> - Advanced Profile, depends on Standard Profile
>   * has Acrobat
>
> Perhaps there could be more fine grained solutions, but this is one
> possible way how to do what you want.

Here we use my patched version[1] of wpkg, for non common applications:

- Basic profile for every host (<host name='.+' />)
- 1 application (or group of application) => 1 profile
- 1 profile => 1 LDAP group[1]
- 1 machine assigned to some groups (<host groups='something' profile-ip='something' />

With the use of /applymultiple we can easily manage which host has which
application.

#v+
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<wpkg>
  <!-- Laptops have wifi, so don't disable autoconfig ? -->
  <!-- All hosts -->
  <host name='.+' profile-id='base'>
  </host>

  <!--
     OS is xp, apply XP specific package (firewall, snetcfg_wxp.exe,  ...)
  -->
  <host os='.+windows xp.+' profile-id='xp' />

  <!-- poweroff -->
  <host groups='poweroff' profile-id='poweroff' />

  <!-- Trend -->
  <host groups='trend' profile-id='officescan' />
</wpkg>
#v-

Regards.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118

[2]  This work for samba and AD

-- 
Daniel Dehennin
RAIP de l'Orne
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