[Libosinfo] [PATCH 8/8] winxp, installer: Make use of post-installation drivers

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 05:02:53PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Christophe Fergeau
> <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 05:45:25PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> > You can't expect every possible Windows exe file to honour the /S switch.
> >> >>
> >> >> If a binary doesn't support '/S' switch, it will ignore it?
> >> >
> >> > Or fail saying it's an unknown parameter?
> >>
> >> According to Vmware docs, this is a standard MSI option:
> >>
> >> http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.view.installation.doc/GUID-F19EBDF6-20A3-4A8B-95AE-786CC74F26AF.html
> >>
> >> If that is the case, its supposed to be guaranteed on every windows
> >> installer setup app?
> >
> > I doubt it's guaranteed...
> 
> Shall I believe those docs or you then? :)

Something that is true for MSI installers != something that is true for
all installers in the world.

> Since drivers and scripts
> could be changed to use .cmd without breaking API, why don't we fix
> this when/if we need to. Right now we only have one driver and what we
> are 100% sure is that this driver setup accepts '/S' switch and
> ignores unknown switches. There is also the indication (docs I
> mentioned) that we might not need this fix for any setup app at all.
> 
> >And the way the code currently is, MSIs can't be
> > installed either.
> 
> Sorry I didn't understand this part?

If you have an installer with a .msi extension, *.exe will not catch it...
I don't know with what extension they are usually shipped.

This *.exe can also be suboptimal for more reasons, one could also imagine
situations where a .exe will be there that shall not be run (eg with
unpacked drivers).

Christophe
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