You're running Autopatcher from wpkg? Can autopatcher be scripted/silented?
Adam Peart wrote: > With Autopatcher it only reboots the computer after all the updates are > installed, if you tell it to. What I've just started doing, and I'm > still playing around to get it working properly, is to use Unattened on > new machines, as well as Autopatcher and WPKG, but in non reformatted > computers I use WPKG, which then calls autopatcher from there. > > Jared Ring wrote: >> 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
