Packaging a deployable client

[ghost]

It would be very nice if the process of creating a deployable client could be automated with few clicks from the web end.

This would imply:

• Downloading the latest Munkitools pkg
• adding scripts
• point the client to the server (both pref files and scripts)
• Packing everything into a dmg

Then allowing to download a local copy so can be deployed with ARD or any other method. This is currently done during the installation/configuration of Simian by executing make dmg (open source?)

Easier deployment = more clients = bug fixes = stability (:

nb

[rickychilcott]

Noel,

This sounds like a good idea. There are a few features that we would like to implement long term that would require more intense preflight/post flight scripts.

One issue I see is that there is a move to making munkiserver hostable on Linux which would make this feature irrelevant to those users. What are your thoughts on that?

[ghost]

You're right on that
A workaround could be executing the code on a client (OSX) machine but let me see what Linux tool can be used to create a .pkg and then compress it on a .dmg