[wpkg-users] "Database Inconsistency: Package with ID x does not exist..." But it Does Exist

[James Arnold]

That's brilliant Adam and everyone, thanks loads for all that!

J

On 27 November 2017 at 19:17, Adam Thorn <alt36 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 27/11/2017 15:12, James Arnold wrote:
>
> everyone!) the .xml file for the package itself (eg msoffice.xml,
>> chrome.xml) I can call anything at all. What matters is, in the file
>> itself, the <package></package> section has the id=boris SO LONG AS in
>> profiles.xml I've a section under the relevant OU for <package
>> package-id="boris" />
>>
>
> There are a few different ways of defining your packages. You can use a
> single packages.xml file:
>
> https://wpkg.org/Packages.xml#packages.xml_structure
>
> which has the overall structure
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <packages>
>
>  <package id="foo" ...>
>    <!-- define package foo here -->
>  </package>
>
>  <package id="bar" ...>
>    <!-- define package bar here -->
>  </package>
>
>  <!-- keep going with as many package elements as you like -->
>
> </packages>
>
> But that rapidly becomes difficult to manage, so you might instead split
> your package definitions into multiple files inside a packages/ directory:
>
> https://wpkg.org/Packages.xml#Individual_XML_package_files
>
> and it sounds like that's what you have. But as you say, all that matters
> is the attributes within the contents of the XML, and the software you
> assign to a host in profiles.xml..
>
> https://wpkg.org/Profiles.xml
>
> need to have "package-id" attributes matching the "id" attribute in your
> <package> elements. Note that you can split up your profiles.xml file into
> multiple files in just the same way that packages.xml can be split. And to
> complete the set, hosts.xml (which defines how the profiles from
> profiles.xml get assigned to a particular host) can be split in much the
> same way:
>
> https://wpkg.org/Hosts.xml
>
> Yet another possibility is to get packages.xml (or profiles.xml or
> hosts.xml) from a webserver by suitably defining settings such as
> web_packages_file_name and wpkg_base in your config.xml:
>
> https://wpkg.org/Config.xml
>
> The config.xml provided with wpkg is well-commented and reading the
> default version that ships with wpkg is the best way to see the options (as
> yours might have been locally altered!). This is what I do, mainly because
> all our info about hosts and profiles ties in to a local database, so we
> query that via PHP and dynamically generate the hosts and profile XML
> contents as needed.
>
> Adam
>
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