Package breaks Novell client
We have an MSI that writes to HKLM\Software\Novell\Login\Banner. The problem is that for some unknown reason the packager set HKLM\Software\Novell to "Install if present, uninstall if absent". If performing a major upgrade or uninstall of the package uninstalls the HKLM\Software\Novell and breaks Novell. It's easy enough to fix new installs, but how can I fix the problem on existing installs? It needs to be a totally silent solution. I've try to repair the app and that doesn't work. The only way I've been remotely successful was deleting the cached MSI from C:\Windows\Installer and then repairing, but since that is a randoming generated filename that won't be a permenant solution.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Any ideas?
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Posted by:
bbinder
16 years ago
What app is it? I've never seen that behavior. Not like it's your best option, but you could chain the install together so that when the application install finishes it begins an upgrade of the Novell client afterwards. This wouldn't stop the application from breaking the Novell Client, but it would repair it after the install completed. Then you can silently restart the computer after the applications finish their work.
Posted by:
anonymous_9363
16 years ago
ORIGINAL: jfarberIf that's the route you want to go down, here's some code which will list which product each cached MSI relates to. To keep it brief, there is NO error-trapping:
The only way I've been remotely successful was deleting the cached MSI from C:\Windows\Installer and then repairing, but since that is a randoming generated filename that won't be a permenant solution.
Option Explicit
Dim objInstaller
Dim colProducts
Dim objGUID
Dim strProductName
Dim strCachedMSIName
Dim strProductList
Set objInstaller = Wscript.CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")
Set colProducts = objInstaller.Products
For Each objGUID in colProducts
With objInstaller
strProductName = .ProductInfo(objGUID, "ProductName")
strCachedMSIName = .ProductInfo(objGUID, "LocalPackage")
End With
strProductList = strProductList & strCachedMSIName & vbTAB & " = " & strProductName & vbCRLF
Next
Wscript.Echo strProductList
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