README.md

Shared WPKGs in use by both Chemistry and Maths

Environment variables

We expect that you will have set the following environment variables:

1. WPKGJS
   Full UNC path to 32-bit wpkg.js
2. WPKGJS64
   Full UNC path to 64-bit wpkg64.js
3. WPKGINSTITUTION
   Agreed-upon code your institution (see below)
4. WPKGSOFTWARE
   Full UNC path to the central software repository.
5. WPKGSOFTWAREUSER
   Username that should be used for connecting to WPKGSOFTWARE
6. WPKGSOFTWAREPASSWORD
   Password that should be used for connecting to WPKGSOFTWARE as WPKGSOFTWAREUSER
7. WPKGLOGDIR
   Directory in which software installer logs are to be kept

The included wpkg wrapper script will look in HKLM\SOFWARE\WPKG\vars and set environment variables for all keys of type REG_SZ, so you could e.g.

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\WPKG\vars /v WPKGINSTITUTION /t REG_SZ /d chemistry

Note: in general, the expectation is that environment variables with names starting "WPKG" are somehow used in this repository, e.g. in package definitions, helper scripts, etc.

Institute codes

1. chemistry
   Department of Chemistry
2. maths
   Faculty of Mathematics

Repository layout

\packages - directory with multiple xml files, each of corresponds to an individual WPKG package definition \scripts - example scripts, e.g. wrappers around wpkg.js which map drives and set environment variables