[MacTUG] Campus wide packaging?

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

I have finally gotten back in the saddle of working on Parallels SCCM and building packages to use within it.

Right from when we started with the Parallels SCCM project it was clear that IST would not have the resources to bundle packages but there was talk of us using it as an excuse to start sharing our packages.

I was talking to Trevor informally about it and I really don’t have a problem with doing this, nor does he (right, Trevor?). The problem is that sometimes the devil is in the details and the general concept of “lets share the work” gets blocked by slightly different goals/needs. As an example, Trevor has done a great job packaging Office 2016 for the mac, but I might want to distribute a version for my labs that is lighter in weight and does not include OneNote and Outlook. Now at some point I may get lazy and decide to ‘borrow’ Trevor’s package (with his blessing I would hope) even if it is bigger than I want it to be and just put a “rm –rf” line in my deployment script to nuke the packages I don’t want installed. I could also see differences on the importance of “latest and greatest” getting in the way. Firefox Version 99 may come out a day before I am rebuilding labs and I may want to push it out whereas other folks may not see the need to rush

So Dani, as the users of Parallels SCCM are loading packages on the same server I think there is a greater chance than ever that the packages can get shared. But at this point in the game, as I am learning how to package for SCCM (when I was blathering on on Tuesday about flat vs bundled packages, that was related to this), I really am not at the stage where I am looking to reduce my packaging workload as I want to see what I am doing.




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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
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From: <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of Manfred Grisebach <manfred at uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 3:50 PM
To: Dani Roloson <daroloson at uwaterloo.ca>, MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: [MacTUG] Campus wide packaging?

I don’t see the origins of this response so just reacting to what I see below, and purely from IST’s perspective. Others may have other information.

IST, via our Workstation Services group, have offered to provide a Mac software deployment infrastructure to any that are willing to participate. We do not have the manpower or expertise to package Mac apps however so have agreement in principle from ENV and AHS, the two groups that trialed the SCCM/Parallels solution for us, that they would be packaging apps themselves and sharing as best as possible as time goes on.
If there is more interest, the key people to contact are Trevor Bain and Don Duff-McCrackin. That’s all I know about packaging, but the infrastructure expertise was built and is being managed by IST (with help).
Hopefully this addresses the thread appropriately?
…M

From: mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Dani Roloson
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:32 PM
To: MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: [MacTUG] Campus wide packaging?

Are there glimmers of that happening on the Mac side
like the Windows side by the campus computing group?

Dani
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