Re: Problems Repackaging/Compiling
- From: Kim Oppalfens <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:34:45 +0200
Jeff,
Would you mind sharing which services you disable and why?
Kim Oppalfens
MVP SMS
In article <upoIrUtYFHA.4024@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, terry@xxxxxxxxxx
says...
> Just repackaging is never enough. You have to go in and clean it up
> afterwards. The tool picks up all changes on a system and as you can
> imagine many things are always changing in the background. There are many
> registry keys that change all the time that need to be cleaned, there are
> temp file created, there are many things.
>
> This takes time and experience to be able to be able to pick out what needs
> to be cleaned or not. But it is important because you don't want all these
> things from one machine that got picked up to be installed on every machine
> in your company as it could cause instability issues or corruption.
>
> In your specific case it sounds like some temp files you need to go in and
> remove from your script. But you will need to do the other stuff as well.
>
> When I repackage apps now I usually use a Virtual machine environment. That
> way it is easier on me to do testing, restore a previous environment, etc...
> I usually use just a complete fresh install of whatever OS I will be
> installing on. I turn off certain services and other things that I know
> will not matter to the installation and that would otherwise add more stuff
> to clean up. I have SMS Installer (or whatever tool) installed on my real
> machine and then I create a shortcut to that on the desktop of my virtual
> machine. I then do the repackage, do the setup how the company wants it
> done, then actual launch the app and run various aspects of the application
> (launching the help files, maybe even opening a previous document, run some
> commands, etc...), complete the capture, do the clean up on the capture,
> compile and then save everything off to my real machine. Then I will reset
> the virtual machine, run the newly compiled setup and see what happens,
> tweak as needed or create other work arounds if needed, reset the VM and try
> again, keep doing until everything installs and runs correctly.
>
> Terry
>
>
> "jnuthall" <jnuthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5C0977A4-A74A-41D8-AFCE-11497EC46DDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have just started to use SMS for software distribution and I am having
> >some
> > problems with creating custom packages. I can get the program to
> > repackage
> > the program fine but when I try to compile I get errors. The compile
> > never
> > complete and it usually points to a file that cannot be opened. What
> > could
> > be causing this? When I repackage a program should I be using a clean
> > version of the OP system?
> >
> > Jeff
>
>
>
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Kim Oppalfens
SMS MVP
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