Re: [wpkg-users] Ugly perl script to check if packages are installed on a set of workstations.

2008-04-02 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Gerd, Your report.pl is not ugly, it's pretty pretty! Works fine for me after adjusting the locations, even if perl -W (v5.8.8) is saying: Using a hash as a reference is deprecated. BTW. If I copy the statusfiles to a share using a wpkg-package like

[wpkg-users] Questions about offline mode and executing the wpkg service

2008-04-02 Thread Dieter Scholz
Hello, I'm currently evaluating wpkg for software distribution in my company using a Vmware environment. After testing some commercial products without much success, I'm really surprised how well software deployment works with wpkg. My current setup should work like that: Whenever a PC is

Re: [wpkg-users] MS Office 2007 silent installer query

2008-04-02 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Dave Ewart schrieb: Hello, I'm looking at http://wpkg.org/MS_Office_2007 and am a little confused. There are two package install variants shown. Is the second one supposed to replace the first, given the problem noted with the first? If so, presumably the first one should be removed.

Re: [wpkg-users] New WPKG user

2008-04-02 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Joel Levin schrieb: Can anybody suggest the best place for a new WPKG user to find the best introductory support? There seems to be so many variables and options that is looks quite confusing. I have been able to make a basic batch script successfully run the loading of one application,

Re: [wpkg-users] New WPKG user

2008-04-02 Thread Paul McGrath
Joel, The first thing to address is the sub folders. You can either use the files.xml or the sub folders or both. I have each of my packages in a separate xml file in the packages folder, I had started with them in the single packages.xml in the root but changed once I got a lot. I have created

[wpkg-users] Installer types

2008-04-02 Thread Joel Levin
Is is safe to say that any application installer with a .exe would use the .exe silent installer package? I am wondering if some applications may say they are .exe, but are actually msi. How would you know? Thank you, Joel University of Washington School of Public Health and Community

[wpkg-users] [Bug 105] using wpkg.js with /force throws an error

2008-04-02 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105 --- Comment #2 from Rainer Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-02 23:20:08 --- Created an attachment (id=107) -- (http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/attachment.cgi?id=107) Full package, fixed /force crash, removed forced quit in some cases This update fixes