It looks like you can have as many arbitrarily named variables as you like.
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Kenny Bayless <kbayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, now it's time for my Doh! moment... > > When we first configured WPKG with test packages, the SOFTWARE variable was > not entirely clear to us. Plus, we had (and still have) several places > there the software installers reside. So instead we used UNC paths. Of > course, now the practicality of the varialbe is clear! Just a quick check - > is it possible to set more than one SOFTWARE variable in settings.XML? Say > - SOFTWARE1 to one location, SOFTWARE2 to another, etc. Now that we are in > limbo, it's a great opportunity to correct this mistake... > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:12 PM, John Danks <john.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What do your package definitions look like? Are you using WPKG Client? >> How is it configured? >> >> It's best-practice to declare a variable in the settings.xml that >> points to the server share for package files, and then use that >> instead of hardcoding server paths in packages.xml. >> >> <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\apps\firefox\Firefox Setup %version%.exe" -ms' >> /> >> >> It would also be a good idea to configure WPKG Client to look for >> wpkg.js at a generic name such as \\wpkg\wpkg.js and use a CNAME >> record in DNS to alias the "wpkg" hostname to whatever server actually >> holds the files. (I didn't do this but now I think I should...) >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Kenny Bayless <kbayl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Please excuse the n00b question... I'm sure there is a simple answer... >> > >> > We have several packages installed with WPKG, and all has been running >> > nicely. However, recently we had to change fileservers, and now all the >> > local WPKG.XML files point to the previous server. Is there a simple >> > way to >> > simply refresh the local XML files? >> > >> > -- >> > Kenny Bayless >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > wpkg-users mailing list >> > wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users >> > >> > > > > > -- > Kenny Bayless > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
