wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org wrote on 14.06.2011 23:32:37:
> I'm currently thinking about a new deployment tool software for
You might want to take a look at ocsinventory (
http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/). It might scratch your itch :)
> Microsoft systems (XP/Vista/7) like WPKG but with the following
functions:
> - Installed directly as a Windows service (no cscript)
I understand this. wpkg.js is a good concept but it suffers from lots of
bugs and limitations in WSH. If cscript would not be the steaming pile of
* that it is, I'd love it.
Updates are no concern. wpkg.js hasn't seen a release since 2009. Even the
bugfixes in SVN are still unreleased.
> - Retrieve the list of the packages to be installed on the computer from
> an HTTP server (a PHP script that queries an LDAP directory to choose a
> database or xml file like Profiles.xml). The description of the packages
> could be an XML file whose format is identical to WPKG.
you can already do that with wpkg. (with wpkgexpress)
> - Retrieving of files (installation programs) from an HTTP server
Dito - but be aware - wpkg uses cscript to retrieve HTML - and will load
everything in RAM before dumping to disk. If you try to the a
notes-install this way off to the swapfile you go :)
Workaround is getting a wget.exe and calling that to retrieve your files.
> - Signing packages and files to ensure they have not been altered and
> nobody use this tool to install other software.
This is definitely a weak point in wpkg that's not easily fixed. As the
main program is not run locally, there's not even a point in signing the
data files.
> - Sends the installation state through the HTTP server (a PHP script
> that stores information in a DB)
you can already do that with wpkg. Just upload the wpkg.xml as a
post-script.
Best Regards
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