Re: [wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install
G'day all Thanks for Paul and Geoff's answers - I wanted to answer when I had the opportunity to try another time. The installshield wasn't one with .iss - the logs clearly showed it was only doing a custom install but other customization like Icons and so forth were recognized by the MST install. I finally stumbled upon the variable INSTALLEVEL which had the value 100. When found this document over here: http://kb.flexerasoftware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalID=Q103232 I tried Installlevel = 150 and it worked also silently - yay :-) Just need to wrap this up in a nice WPKG xml and make up the 3 other parts of this software. I hope I can give back the MST and XML into the wiki seems to be a software our german Bio and Chemistry teachers seem to like so (too) much ;-) Thank you guys! -- Mathieu - wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] MSI + MST: MST somewhat ignored when silent install
G'day This is not strictly related to WPKG but I have been pondering upon some school software "Rund um ... Biologie heute" which I'd like to package with WPKG. Normally total of 6 CDs so it's definitely not a joy to play disk jockey... ;-) Its Setup.exe has a "/a" switch for "Admin/Network-Installation" and copies the complete content of all 6 disks to a folder, and then contains a MSI. I want the Software to be installed completely on the local disks. The interactive MSI installer says InstallShield so I guess it has been made with this software. I have been able to create a MST with Orca.exe: What confuses me is that when doing a interactive installation with the MST, the options I have modified via the MST are correctly pre-chosen (msiexec /i TRANSFORMS=mytransform.mst) in the installer like Start Menu location, and complete Installation option - but when I do a reduced (msiexec /qr) or silent (/qn) silent install, it only does a "typical" install which requires CDs to be inserted for the user (not what I'd like). Is there a good way to look more closely where I'm biting myself with InstallShield's MSI? Best regards Mathieu - wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] wpkg-users Digest, Vol 52, Issue 15
G'day I have encountered an interesting behaviour with the VBScript on the Wiki that pulls Computers in an AD according to their OU which allows re-using this for OU-named profiles: We have OU's that have non-ASCII characters. Notepad++ shows the then-generated hosts.xml correctly when I switch to ANSI so I guess it's not UTF-8. :-) WPKG fails with an ANSI-encoded file, it can't parse the XML file - if I replace the characters, let's say "ä" I can use the file. What would be better? * Declare the generated file bein ANSI instead of UTF-8? * Get data from AD and convert them to UTF-8 before they're writen out to the file? It doesn't look as if WPKG can't use Profiles with Umlaute like ä, it's that the script fails spitting out UTF-8 which WPKG seems to require. :-) Best regards Mathieu - wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
[wpkg-users] Make difference between 64-bit and 32bit Package according to installed OS?
Hi I started using wpkg a while ago for some testing. While I am positively surprised by its neat concept I got some questions, here is one which urges me :) Is there already capability in wpkg.js to recognize if it is working on a x86 or a x64 OS? Because I have x64 and x86 on my machines I made 2 packages declarations for e.g. slinksvn wich I called then slinksvn-x86 and slinksvn-x64. I made a profile dev-x86 and dev-x64 which is associated manually to the computer which has the corresponding architecture. While this solutions works fine you will need to have a good eye on packaging in mixed environments because you have to know, which host needs to get the x64 package and which the x86 one. Did I oversee something on the docs? BTW: I was keen enough to upgrade some small silent installers in the wiki (Quicktime alternative was quite outdated and broken). Hopin' I'm not offending old wpkg users :-) Cheers Mathieu - wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
