-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Malte Starostik wrote: > Am Montag, 10. August 2009 21:40:15 schrieb David Christensen: >> Charles Gargent wrote: >>>> Is anyone familiar with modifying msi files by way of mst to do silent >>>> installs, is this even possible? > [...] >>> Besides, anything you can run on the command line can be run in WPKG >>> (if there are many command lines to run putting them in a batch file >>> is a good idea. >> I started investigating the mst option, but was unsure if that option >> would work via WPKG. With the issue at hand I need to include a new ini >> file that contains site specific configuration options. I downloaded >> orca and created an mst, but wasn't clear on how to include the ini as >> part of the mst or even what needed to be the final output after >> everything was changed. This is about the time I started looking at >> autoit, but based on your response it doesn't look like a valid solution. >> >> I'd like to try toe msi/mst route but I have limited knowledge of this >> area, any pointers on where to look for howtos etc would be appreciated. >> > Hi David, > > you might have a look at this one: http://www.instedit.com/ it's IMHO quite > nicer to handle than orca. Then you just use sth. along the lines of > msiexec /i path\to\setup.msi TRANSFORMS=path\to\transform.mst /qn /norestart > as install command. Alternatively, if it's only about dropping an additional > file into the target system, you might as well install the msi without > transform and add another command like > %COMSPEC% /c copy /y path\to\config.ini path\to\destination\ > > HTH, > Malte > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 Malte,
Thanks for the info, based on my current need I will take your advice and install the msi without the transform and copy the ini file over. Is the %COMSPEC% command you provided intended to be appended to the existing entry in the packages.xml file? David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqAkOYACgkQ5B+8XEnAvqu5SQCfbZ2h2iz9jbAoQbzSzrlX35Pd qBgAmwYSpDAYYQF5/6/hZsKHpEJpO8y5 =ehDV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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