VMware PACKAGE MANAGER 1.1, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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Using Software Repository for Windows
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Using Software Repository for Windows
Software Repository for Windows is the shared location to which packages are published by Package
Studio and the location from which Package Manager downloads packages for installation.
You manage the contents of repositories with Package Studio and specify the repository sources, the
platforms and sections, from which to install or remove software packages using Package Manager.
About Repository Platforms and Sections
When you publish a package to a repository, you specify one or more platforms and sections. Platforms
and sections are the hierarchy used to organize software in repositories.
To publish packages to a repository, you must define at least one platform. Each platform must include at
least one section.
Platforms
The platform value can be used to define the operating system architecture on which the package can be
installed. In other repository systems, such rpm, it is common for the platform to represent the operating
system architecture.
Package Manager does not detect the architecture of the operating system on which it is running and it is
therefore unable to automatically identify the platform version required for installation on the target
machine. It is up to you to specify the packages based on well-defined platforms in repositories.
Create and use platforms to help manage your software package distribution based on the operating
system platforms on which they can be installed. When you use a greater level of specificity, it will result in
smaller groups of packages and will increase the predictability of what packages are installed.
Providing consistent naming across all repositories is important to successfully managing multiple
repositories and installing packages.
For example, you may specify platforms as follows:
n
Any
n
Any_32
n
Any_64
n
Win2k3
n
Win2k3_32
n
Win2k3_64
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