On 8/19/2011 4:58 PM, Rainer Meier wrote:
Hi Donny and others,
On 19.08.2011 23:23, Donny Brooks wrote:
You are exactly right. I only had the catch all as we had previously
had some
pc's that we didn't care to setup proper hostnames as they were only
in the
setup bay for a day then out in the field never to return, or get
updates for
that matter. The reason I had two for my pc is I was testing
something but the
duplicate has been removed. I have solved the issue I think by
removing the
default entry and placing it in the \\management\wpkg\hosts.xml file.
But now
that we don't really have a "need" for the default entry I have
removed it
altogether.
Honestly I am not really happy with the result of this thread.
Although Donny seems to be happy now. I think you have discovered a
potential bug or at least something which is not clearly defined yet.
In one of your posts you showed that even renaming one file to
zz-default.xml it does not appear at the end. The only thing which
always appears at the end is the xml file from the root folder (e.g.
hosts.xml is read last, always).
This is due to the fact that historically the XML files were read by a
WSH function. But it looks nobody ever challenged it and nobody even
noticed that this WSH function does not assure any sort order. So the
files might be read in random order actually.
In most cases this is fine, but as the contents are evaluated in order
too, it makes sense to have the read order of the files defined clearly.
That's why I've made a small modification to address the issue.
Some tests before the change:
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/2-hostb.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/10-hosty.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/1-host1.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/20-hostx.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts.xml
As you can see reading 2-hostb.xml first is unexpected. Actually I
think I've created this file last - so it's rather sorted by creation
date than by file name which I regard as a bug.
I am using Samba 3.6 with SMB2 protocol on Gentoo Linux as a server bwt.
After my modification it reads as follows:
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/1-host1.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/10-hosty.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/2-hostb.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts/20-hostx.xml
Reading XML file: //skynet/RemInst/wpkg.offline/hosts.xml
Which is correct (when assuming literal sort order).
I've checked in the changes for you to perform some tests too:
Changes 2011-08-19, v1.2.1-RC8 by Rainer Meier <r.meier (at) wpkg.org>
FIX: XML files read from directories (e.g. hosts/*.xml, profiles/*.xml or
packages/*.xml) have not been explcitly sorted. So the order of
reading
was depending on the OS and not strictly defined.
Now all files are added to an array which is sorted in literal
(ASCII)
order. Keep in mind if you number your files that sort oder is
literally
and not numerically. So if you name your files "1.xml, 2,xml, 3.xml,
10.xml, 11.xml, 20.xml" then the sort order will be:
- 1.xml
- 10.xml
- 11.xml
- 2.xml
- 20.xml
- 3.xml
To prevent this try keeping the same amount of digits:
- 01.xml
- 02.xml
- 03.xml
- 10.xml
- 11.xml
- 20.xml
Thanks to Donny Brooks who seems to have noticed first that the
ordering
somehow goes wrong for him.
Download RC8 from the SVN repository:
<http://wpkg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wpkg/wpkg/stable/1.2/>
br,
Rainer
Glad I could help out some Rainer. I was not sure if it was a bug or
some setting on my system. Since I am using linux on the server end I
may be a little different from other users. I will download the latest
and see how it works. Thanks for all you do!
Donny B.
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