Andrew Z schrieb:
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.
Just run WPKG when system shuts down, or even when it starts, but in the
background.
The date="2005-12-31" option would be nice of course (meaning software
will be installed after that date); you could set up everything, take a
long holiday, and WPKG would take care of everything :)
--
Tomek
http://wpkg.org
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