Possible Help with a Project
Possible Help with a Project
- Subject: Possible Help with a Project
- From: "Perbix, Michael" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:05:33 -0400
- Thread-topic: Possible Help with a Project
I am in deep with automated imaging process currently....the one less
then automated process I have is making packages for installed
applications. The reason for this process is it allows me to install
applications with all settings and license items configured for me,
re-packaged and installed during the image process, or after the fact...
Here is the process I currently run....
Run the LOGGEN CLI utility that creates a text file snapshot of your
system
Install, run and configure applications
Run LOGGEN again to create an after snapshot and a diff file....
Reboot as ROOT
Create a folder on the desktop for my package
Use ditto -rsrc to copy the items found in the diff file to the created
directory
Use packagemaker to package that directory into an installable package.
My issues
#1 I am not sure of packagemaker has a CLI counterpart....
#2 I do not know advanced programming, so I am not sure how to parse the
diff file to integrate into using ditto to make the directory, ditto all
the stuff to it then launch packagemaker with the right stuff
Anyone who wishes to undertake this would be welcome...or any info would
be welcome.. I would be offering this final utilty to the imaging
community....without profit....or if someone else wants to undertake the
utility creation and allow me to test it and give feedback...you can
then handle it as you wish 8-)....
It sounds like something that should be relatively easy....and if I had
the time, I would learn it myself..
As I see it, you would need to run the utility, install all your
software, Run the utility again, then give it a filename, and all the
packagemaker parameters...then let it go to town.
-Mike
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Michael Perbix
Telecommunications Specialist
Lower Merion School District
(610) 645-1964 - PH
(610) 896-2019 - FAX
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