[wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

[Malte Starostik]

Am Dienstag, 11. August 2009 00:24:30 schrieb Rainer Meier:
> Hi Malte,
>
> Malte Starostik wrote:
> > In such cases I usually put the file in the same directory as the
> > installer, i.e. somewhere in %SOFTWARE%.  Then, the first (source)
> > argument to the copy command is on the distribution share and the second
> > (target) argument is on the local host.  Both of them may be local or
> > remote as long as they're accessible to the wpks.js process.  This makes
> > %SOFTWARE% a good candiate as well as the share wpkg.js resides on.
>
> I think David might be slightly irritated by the fact that the command you
> quoted is incomplete:
>
> <install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c %SOFTWARE%\MyAppini "%ProgramFiles%\MyApp\'/>
>
> most probably the following expresses what you intended to demonstrate:
>
> <install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c copy /Y "%SOFTWARE%\MyApp.ini"
> "%ProgramFiles%\MyApp\"'/>
Indeed, got me there, the art of copy and paste :-)

> Quotes around the source/target path are strongly advised too because the
> path might contain spaces (e.g. "%ProgramFiles%" resolves to "C:\Program
> Files" on a default system in EN language).

Right.  There is a missing " after "%ProgramFiles%\MyApp\ above.  I left out 
the quotes around %SOFTWARE%\... as I always guarantee those to be free of 
spaces, YMMV.  And there's a missing . in MyApp.ini on the same line.  Bugged 
post.

Cheers,
Malte