Tim Fournet wrote:
So... What you're asking for is WSUS ;)
It would be interesting to see wpkg modified to do the same thing, but
I'm not sure if it will work smoothly. You'd need someone to manually
edit the packages.xml with each update and place the KB files into the
right share. Could be done, but it would be a lot better with a tool to
automate it all, which is what WSUS does.
Technically, it should be possible, and it's a great idea.
This is how I see it - one thing is actually on the TODO list:
1) Make possible to use additional config files (something like "include
hosts-custom.xml" would include this additional .xml files, or "include
hosts\*" would include all files in hosts folder)
So, in other words, we create a folder called "updates", which would
contain "update" xml files (windows / office updates etc.).
2) each update xml file would be called like ms1232312.xml,
ms41243123.xml (similar to the actual files)
3) whenever there is a new update, we publish a new update file on
http://wpkg.org - as a normal installation:
<package
id="ms121212"
name="ms121212"
revision="1">
<check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Update KB322432" />
<install cmd='\\SOME\PATH\msiexec /i (path to msi)'>
</install>
</package>
4) we make an rss feed for admins on http://wpkg.org - each "alert"
would contain the above installation (point 3) and a link to the update
cab/exe.
5) we make a simple bash script which checks this rss feed and downloads
an update:
# wpkg_updates --path \\my\server\wpkg\packages\updates [--rss
http://wpkg.org/updates.rss]
--path is the path where the updates would be saved; the script would
download the update and change \\SOME\PATH\ from the rss feed to that path
And we have a Linux version of WSUS (perhaps it needs some more
extending, but that's just a concept)! :)
--
Tomek
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