I have a request for the installer.
How about add a test to the packages.xml format that allows the installer to test whether or not a particular process is running prior to installing/upgrading/removing a package. With an option to kill the process. I guess this could fall into the pre command catagory. But this way if needed wpkg can force an update and the program when it's currently running. This can prevent packages from getting half updated before running into an can't over writing file error. Obviously the option to kill the process will have to be used carefully.
Another idea is to have a global settings xml file to set global variables and enable/disable features. For instance some administrators may want to be able to globably disable the ability to kill a running process as I just outlined. It may also be a cleaner place to store the default runtime flags and path variables rather than having a bat file involved.
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David Miller
On 9/19/06, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daniel Delattre wrote:
> Here's the command line:
>
> msiexec /qn /i WPKGSetup.msi PATH="\\server\wpkg" FILE="wpkg.js"
> EXECUSER="SYSTEM" PARAMETERS="/synchronize /nonotify /quiet"
> SCRIPTVARNAME1="SOFTWARE" SCRIPTVARVALUE1="\\server\software" SILENT="YES"
I'll try to reproduce it in the morning.
> BTW, we use several startup scripts already and I really would like this to
> run as a service.
Is there any special reason for this (I'm just curious to know)?
Anyway, I feel I'm willing to extend the installer a bit:
- allow more variables
- allow pre and post commands
Any ideas what it still lacks?
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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