[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Testing Staff Client Silent Install

[Hardy, Elaine]

I setup different profiles for different tasks and associated hostnames -
Live, test, next etc. That way I don't have to change the hostname. As
Terran said, if we are actively testing a new version, I do have live and
next (we have test for testing with our current version and next for
testing the upcoming version) running on different workstations so that I
can verify differences in versions. 

 

Elaine

 

J. Elaine Hardy
PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Ste 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304

 

404.235.7128
404.235.7201, fax
ehardy at georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org/pines

 

From: Open-ils-dev [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org]
On Behalf Of Josh Stompro
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 11:09 PM
To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Testing Staff Client Silent Install

 

Hello, I'm trying to setup a silent install of the staff client for a
testing version of the server.  A place where any staff can have full
reign of the system to try stuff out etc.  I'm sure many sites do this.
I'm wondering if there are any best practices for having a staff client
testing instance installed on the same machine that has the production
instance.

 

Here is what I'm doing so far. 

*       rigbeta option so the icons will be a different color.

*       custom  STAFF_CLIENT_VERSION so the installer has a different
name.

 

I've been trying to figure out how to set a custom default install folder
for the windows installer, but I haven't figured that out yet.  Is there a
way to do it at staff client build time.. or should I be setting that with
arguments to the installer file.

 

I'm going to try and create a silent install package with our OCS
Inventory NG system, so I can just push it out to certain staff machines
automatically.

 

I tried 

LARL-EG-Test1-2.8.2_setup.exe /S /D=c:\Program Files (x86)\Evergreen
Client LARL-EG-Test1

And that did do the trick

 

Also, is there a way to force a custom client profile directory, the
default is %APPDATA%/openils/.  So that preferences are not shared and the
staff don't have to change the hostname.

 

Or am I making this too hard, do you normally just change the hostname to
your test system and use the same client install for production and test?

 

Thanks

Josh

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