Hi all, (Change of subject - thread fork. As Tomasz has already mentioned, this isn't part of wpkg 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. This is an interesting idea - I would like to make a further suggestion that it might be possible to tag packages to wait until a process has finished before installing. Downside: WPKG installation will hang until the process finishes. Upside: We don't irritate users by terminating their programs and losing their data. I have four layers of 'priority' in my packages: 900 ish - OS service packs 700 ish - "Big" applications (Word, Office, AutoCAD) 500 ish - "Big" application service packs (Office SP3, AutoCAD SP1) 300 ish - "small" applications (PDF creator, notetab) I would think that waiting until (for example) word has finished running before attempting to patch office to SP3 would be a good thing. It might prevent (say) PDF creator from being installed but that's what priorities are for. So, a tag like <process action='kill'>winword.exe</process> would cause all instances of winword.exe to be terminated before the 'install' commands were carried out but a tag like <process action='wait'>winword.exe</process> would cause WPKG execution to come to a halt until all windows.exe instances had terminated. Any thoughts? Yours, Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
