So is there a downside of just setting up a %software% system variable? Seems like a simple way of doing it.
Dave. On 19 May 2011, at 13:22, "LAPLAUD François" <lapl...@sdis72.fr> wrote: > Thanks for this suggestion. > In fact my scheduled task is already running a bath calling wpkg.js. > > I would have preferred to not set my env var here since this batch is running > locally. > > Anyway, I will certainly choose this solution since my batch is deployed via > WPKG itself. > > Thanks > > Laplaud François > Service Informatique & Transmission > Service Départemental d'Incendie et de Secours de la Sarthe > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Rainer Meier [mailto:r.me...@wpkg.org] > Envoyé : jeudi 19 mai 2011 14:17 > À : LAPLAUD François > Cc : wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > Objet : Re: [wpkg-users] Variables %SOFTWARE% without wpkg client > > Hi, > > On 19.05.2011 10:40, LAPLAUD François wrote: >> Thanks for all your suggestions. >> >> In fact my aim is to define in one centralized place where my SOFTWARE repo >> is. I am running the wpkg.js script using a scheduled task running as SYSTEM >> user. >> >> I have one XML file per package stored in a package sub directory. >> >> May I define my software var in my empty package.xml file so it would be >> interpreted for every specific XML files ? > > Package variables are only valid during installation of the package it is > defined in. WPKG tries to set a "clean" environment for each package - not > depending on whether another package which defines variables is applied > before. > > The way to go is to set these variables before WPKG is launched. For example > instead of launching wpkg.js directly. You simply launch wpkg.cmd which you > put > in the same directory. It might looks as follows: > > @echo off > set SOFTWARE=\\path\to\software > start /wait "wpkg" cscript "%~dp0wpkg.js" /synchronize > > > br, > Rainer > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
