Creating Package Groups - Symantec SOFTWARE MANAGER 8.0 - REFERENCE FOR WISE PACKAGE STUDIO V1.0 Reference

Creating Package Groups

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Example: Suppose a package group named Corporate contains two child groups:
Accounting and Engineering. The Engineering group contains a child group named
Testing.
If your package groups are set up to inherit from both parent and child groups, then
whenever you assign a package to the Engineering group, that package is inherited by
the Corporate group and the Testing group. However, it is not inherited by the
Accounting group.
Package inheritance is different from package relationships, which define dependencies
between packages.
Group Deployment Properties
Group deployment properties define how a group is deployed. They specify which
packages in a group will be installed, the order in which they will be installed, and the
command lines that will be used to run the package installations.
When you define group deployment properties, you can add one or more subgroups to a
group. Example: You define a group named Acrobat, which installs Adobe Acrobat
Reader. You define another group named Word Processor, which installs a word
processing application. The word processor contains .PDF help files, so you want to
install Acrobat at the same time as the word processor. To do so, you can add the
Acrobat group as a subgroup of the Word Processor group.
Setting Group Deployment Properties
Use the Groups pane in Software Manager to create and edit package groups. You can
set up groups and subgroups, add packages to groups, and delete packages from
groups. To show the Groups pane, select View menu > Groups.
The right-click menu provides quick access to most of the tasks that you can accomplish
in the Groups pane. You also can drag packages into package groups.
Note
If you will use Group Distribution, it is best to add packages to groups on the Group
Properties dialog box. The order in which you add packages to a group on the Group
Properties dialog box can affect the state of the package check boxes during distribution.
With Enterprise Management Server, Security Setup determines whether you can edit
package groups.
To create a package group
1. (Enterprise Management Server only.) If multiple databases are open, select a
database in the Applications/Packages pane.
2. Select Setup menu > Groups > Edit Groups.
The Edit Groups dialog box appears.
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