Hello,

I am trying out wpkg, and I have a suggestion: on our network I would like users to be able to delay software installations. Imagine a scenario where the software change is not critical, but the person may be in a hurry and unnecessarily inconvenienced by waiting. Therefore, I propose extra options in packages such as these:

<package id="putty" name="putty" revision="1" priority="0" reboot="false">
<delay max_times="5" max_date="2005-12-31"> <!-- the new options are on this line only -->
<check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="PuTTY version 0.58" />
<install cmd='\\server\directory\putty-0.58-installer.exe /sp- /silent' />
</package>

With these options, the user would see a message such as this:

   The following changes should be made to your system:
       Install-Putty-May be delayed 5 more times until December 21, 2005
       Upgrade-Firefox-Required
       Remove-AVG Antivirus-Required
Some of these changes may be delayed. Would you like to make all these changes now? yes/no

Also, it would be sufficient to implement just the max_date option and not also max_times.

Andrew


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