[wpkg-users] apple itunes silent installer

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Craig White schrieb:
> I have updated the Apple installer to a version newer than that listed
> on the wiki...
> 
> I am including the output of each at the bottom of this e-mail (watch
> the line wraps) but I did have one issue that is confusing me.
> 
> When upgrading itunes application, the msiexec exit code seems to emit
> and exit code 3010 and not 0 which makes wpkg think it has failed and
> since the applemobile.xml and quicktime.xml 'require' itunes, they fail
> to upgrade and the computer is mostly unusable because the
> iTunesHelper.exe application goes into a race condition when a user logs
> in. Subsequent restart (or restart of wpkg service) then realizes that
> the correct itunes version actually is installed and then proceeds to
> process the updates for applemobile.xml and quicktime.xml and everything
> is happy. So I'm gathering that the upgrade from say itunes 8.0.1.11 to
> 8.1.1.10 actually requires a restart.

Exit code 3010 from msiexec means that a reboot is needed:

http://wpkg.org/MSI:_Windows_Installer


> Should I just remove the '/norestart' parameter from the upgrade command
> for itunes?

See also:

http://wpkg.org/Rebooting



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Tomasz Chmielewski