[Fusioninventory-user] Incremental Software Deployment and Version Control

[Rob Townley]

Thanks for the clarification.

WPKG does grouping.  I wonder if it is smart enough to only download a pkg
iff needed.

On Sunday, August 14, 2011, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 14/08/2011 05:08, Rob Townley wrote:
>>>
>>> And once you have .msi packages, you may as well use AD GPO for
deployment,
>>> which offer all the grouping you need. The only advantages of previous
tools
>>> are better bandwidth usage if you have network limits, and more options
for
>>> installation time (GPO only allows for installation at boot and logon
time).
>>
>> Setup.exe can be made silent or even switchless and silent.  MSI may
>> be better at uninstalls, but exe installs can be reversed.
>
> Well, you don't want to download a 400Mo payload every hour on every host
to just try to install it, if not needed. So you first have to check if the
software is installed, in which version, and take a decision from the
available version. Without a packaging system, you have to handle this
manually in a wrapper script, for every software you plan to install. Here
is such a script for fusioninventory, for instance:
http://forge.fusioninventory.org/projects/fusioninventory-agent/wiki/Vbs_install_upgrade
.
>
>> GPO only works with Professional Editions of Windows and is not meant
>> to work across the internet.
>
> Good to know. However, that's likely the case for actual sysadmin tasks,
unless you're dealing with managing grandma's box across the country.
>
> Anyway, my point was just than selecting a deployement tool is only half
of the problem, the software payload being the other.
> --
> BOFH excuse #390:
>
> Increased sunspot activity.
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