[wpkg-users] helpful python module

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Romanow
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winshell.html I saw a writeup of this on another blog and thought abt how relevant this is to some wpkg tasks. - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/

[wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Wootten
Will wpkg uninstall software it did not install, if said software is installed on the computer, has an entry in packages.xml, but is not in the relevant profile? The desired behaviour for myself is that wpkg _not_ do that. Since users are allowed to install their own software if they want.

Re: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Wilcox
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:33:20 + From: jetsho...@o2.co.uk To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Subject: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install? Will wpkg uninstall software it did not install, if said software is installed on the computer, has an entry in

Re: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Gough
My experience is that this is *mostly* true. For example if you decide to roll out v1 of a package but a user has already manually installed v2 and your check only looks for v1 files then you could potentially have a situation where wpkg tries to install the older version on top of the newer

[wpkg-users] WPKG client service script error on clean install

2010-02-26 Thread Vasaris
Hello, For the start let me thank the developers and maintainers of this project, as it is very usefull. I am newbie here, therefore pardon for my incompetence. I have started depolyment of WPKG from scratch. If I understand correctlly, there are two separate modes of the execution -

[wpkg-users] help with a package - ultravnc

2010-02-26 Thread Paul McGrath
Hi, I am trying to create a package of ultravnc 1.0.8.2 and have been working on it for two days. I cannot get the mirror driver to install. I have created two packages, one is the mirror driver and the other ultravnc. Ultravnc installs okay and is working but I need to install the mirror

Re: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?

2010-02-26 Thread Pendl Stefan
Will wpkg uninstall software it did not install, if said software is installed on the computer, has an entry in packages.xml, but is not in the relevant profile? The desired behaviour for myself is that wpkg _not_ do that. Since users are allowed to install their own software if they

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG client service script error on clean install

2010-02-26 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Vasaris, On 26.02.2010 16:51, Vasaris wrote: After this, I uploaded settings.xml file to the target workstation, which I have preprared and exported from the additional workstation, where WPKG client was installed manually. It is as follows: I hope you also imported the configuration

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG client service script error on clean install

2010-02-26 Thread Vasaris
Hi Rainer, Hi Vasaris, On 26.02.2010 16:51, Vasaris wrote: After this, I uploaded settings.xml file to the target workstation, which I have preprared and exported from the additional workstation, where WPKG client was installed manually. It is as follows: I hope you also

Re: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- Will wpkg uninstall software it did not install, if said software is installed on the computer, has an entry in packages.xml, but is not in the relevant profile? The desired behaviour for myself is that wpkg _not_ do that. Since users are allowed to

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG client service script error on clean install

2010-02-26 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
On 26.02.2010 18:15, Rainer Meier wrote: (...) I see you're not using a path-user setting but instead the machine account. I personally never tried it but remember that there were some discussions that in certain cases it does not work properly. Tomasz can comment on this, he knows by heart I

Re: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?

2010-02-26 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Kevin, On 26.02.2010 23:19, Kevin Keane wrote: WPKG does __not__ scan the installed software and remove anything, which does not match the profile of the computer. To be honest, I don't completely trust WPKG in this respect. I have never been able to conclusively determine any scenario,

Re: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Gough
Agreed but this isn't the scenario I was describing. Simply put if for some reason I decide to rollout Firefox v3.5 to all of my clients but some of my users have already installed v3.6 then wpkg may install the older version over the top of the newer version assuming I use a check condition that

[wpkg-users] Joining windows to a domain

2010-02-26 Thread Sebastian Mazur
Hi, I try join windows xp to domain with netdom.exe. When I run package I get error: Multiple connection Is someone who tried to join windows to a domain and can help me? Thanks Sebastian. - wpkg-users mailing list