Difference between revisions of "Hosts.xml"

Revision as of 12:38, 25 June 2005

hosts.xml is a file which defines the hosts and the profiles, which these hosts will use. Profiles are defined in profiles.xml file.

It has to be placed in the same direstory as wpkg.js.

WPKG will not work without this file.

The structure of hosts.xml is the following:

<wpkg>
<host name="host1" profile-id="custom1" />
<host name="host2" profile-id="custom2" />
</wpkg>

Which means, that a hostname with a name host1 will use a profile custom1, and a hostname with a name host2 will use a profile custom2.

If you have more hosts, or want to group them, it would be unwise to edit dozens of host entries just to attach them all to one or two profiles. That's why you can use regular expressions. You can view the exact syntax on this page.

Quick examples

Below is a quick explanation on the usage of regular expression within the hosts.xml file.

<host name="b[0-9]+" profile-id="profile" />

works for: b1, b10, b100 does not work for: bubu, b, x, x1, x10, x100

<host name=".+" profile-id="profile" />

works for *all* hosts - use with care (!), place at the bottom of hosts.xml (see below why .+ regular expression match should be placed at the end of the hosts.xml file).

<host name="b.+" profile-id="profile1" />

works for "b10", "b11", "b12345" etc.

<host name="b.+" profile-id="profile2" />
<host name="bronek1" profile-id="profile1" />
<host name="bron.+" profile-id="profile3" />

Normally, hosts are parsed from top to the bottom, except when the hostname is not a regular expression. So the host "bronek1" will match "profile1", even though it also matches "b.+" and "bron.+" (which are regular expressions).

See also

• profiles.xml - defines the profiles.
• packages.xml - defines the list of packages.
• wpkg.js - WPKG engine.