Great, thank you very much! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:23 PM, John Danks <john.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > > -- Kenny Bayless
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