Hi all, Thank you ever so much to Bernard, Kevin and Julian who answered my question.
The answer was indeed very simple and obvious and I was overlooking it. In fact, I feel the point that base.bat is so important and useful should be pointed out more clearly in the "how to install hotfixes and applications" guide. It seems to easy for me to miss this point and misunderstand the way the whole thing works. It is presented as an example and not as a fundamental block of the whole system, imho. Maybe this point could be slightly re-written? I'll provide if you wish. Anyway, thank you once again for your very generous help, it really made my day :-) Cheers, Dans sa grande sagesse, Julian Turnbull a écrit, le 13.05.2008 18:27 : > Hi Oliver, > > The winxpsp*.bat files are called from the hotfix.bat script (which > automatically chooses the right one for the OS variant you are building). > > Julian. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Henriot > Sent: 13 May 2008 16:38 > To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Unattended] updates and packages > > Hi all, > > I'm currently using unattended-4.7 on a CentOS 5 server and I have a > question concerning the installation of hotfixes and applications "the > unattended way". > > The setup works fine, I can install my machines using diskless PXE boot. > > The problem is when I want to add hotfixes and applications. > I first put all batch scripts (except perl.bat which I do not touch) > which were in the scripts directory in a subdirectory which I called > "unused_scripts" for lack of a better name. > I downloaded 7-zip and vlc binaries, placed them in the packages > directory; copied the 7-zip.bat and vlc.bat back into the scripts > directory and edited them in order to keep only the minimal number of > lines. That works fine, cool. :-) > I then copied the firefox and thunderbird scripts into the scripts > directory and downloaded the binaries into the packages directory. That > works too, great. :-) > Feeling very bold and lucky, I then copied the winxpsp*.bat scripts back > into the scripts directory and ran the script-update and prepare tools > with the proper language code (FRA). It indeed updated my scripts and > downloaded the binaries to the proper directories, brilliant. :-) > Unfortunately, when I run the installation of a machine, the only > applications I can install are 7-zip, vlc, firefox and thunderbird. No > trace of the updates anywhere. I checked rights on files and folders, > that's OK. I tried copying the binaries to the packages directory and > editing the scripts, to no avail. I just can't get these updates to > appear in the applications list... > > There must be something obvious missing which I can't, for the life of > me, spot. :-( > Can someone point me to a clue? That would be great. :-) > > Thanks a lot and congratulations for this great project. :-) > > Cheers, > -- Oliver Henriot, UMS MI2S, http://mi2s.imag.fr/ Moyens Informatiques et Multimédia Domaine universitaire BP53 / 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 / France tel.: +33 4 76 51 43 48 fax: +33 4 76 51 47 15 Trust in CNRS's certificates http://igc.services.cnrs.fr/Doc/General/trust.html
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