Adam Been reading about unattended, looks great for heterogeneous environments. And may even look at that in the future. but right now are hardware is so similar that g4u + sysprep and a few driver files works fine.
autopatcher is great and i use it to take xpsp2 upto whatever i ahve (currently Aug2006) but now i'm concerned with what happens _after_. Sep2006 has 3 updates, 2 required a reboot. My problem isnt in getting the initial machines deployed, but maintaining them with future patches. Thanks for your advice re: unattended, it looks to be another tool to play with. Adam Peart wrote: > Jared Ring wrote: >> I've been looking through the wiki and searching the mailling list and >> couldnt find an answer to this particular scenario. >> >> Modern MS hotfixes can be chained (like the old qchain tool) >> automatically. What would be the best way to get this sort of behaviour >> out of wpkg? >> >> Its my understanding that if I were to create a package for each hotfix >> and check the errorcode and set reboot=true if needed this woudl cause a >> reboot for each hotfix. Which could result in multiple reboots on the >> client unnecessarily. Is that correct in my understanding? >> > Almost all of the patches can be rebooted once after all the hotfixes > are installed, except for ones that depend on a bigger updated being > installed first. Foe example SP2 for XP or SP4 for 2k has to be > installed, then rebooted for any hotfixes relying on those versions to > work, otherwise you'll get errors saying SP2 hasn't been detected, pleas > install first. >> Another alternative was to create one package for all hotfixes, ie, >> package-id="Hotfixes-200609" for this months patch batch and set that to >> reboot on completion. >> >> What are other wpkg users doing? I'm getting ready to use wpkg in our >> windows desktop/bsd server environment and am really looking forward to >> the end of sneakernet patch/software installation :) >> > I was using the Unatteded package to install Windows updates, till I > found out about Autopatcher. Now I use Unattended to pre-install witch > version of Windows I want installed, Autopatcher for the Windows > updates, then WPKG to install all the apps. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
