[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.2.10 for WinNT/2000/XP available (fwd)

[Stephen Joyce]

Rob,

I'm more of a unix admin (who occasionally must delve into the dark
side)... so I don't know if NSIS is appropriate to use or not, but I have
to admit that it looks promising.... and any product that claims to have
"SuperPiMP (tm)" technology has a certain humorous appeal. :-)

Coming from the unix world, I have a strong desire to script anything that
I must do more than ~3 times.  I don't like manually installing software on
multiple windoze machines.  The 1.2.9a installer, when called with /r would
create a setup.iss file which when later used with the /s option would
automatically answer all but 2 of the install questions.  The 1.2.10
installer seems to blissfully ignore any flags I send to it...

Cheers,
Stephen
--
Stephen Joyce
Systems Administrator                                            P A N I C
Physics & Astronomy Department                         Physics & Astronomy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill         Network Infrastructure
voice: (919) 962-7214                                        and Computing
fax: (919) 962-0480                               http://www.panic.unc.edu

You don't need to be faster than the bear which is chasing
you. You merely need to be faster -- or less tasty -- than
the others running with you.
               --- From "Maintaining system security"

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Murawski, Rob wrote:

> I have been considering re-writing all of the installer files to use
> something more current than InstallShield. (And more available)  I was
> looking for an open source installer program so that anyone can build
> the entire package.  The one I came across that looked pretty good was
> the NullSoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS):
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/site/index.php  It does not build MSI files,
> but I haven't found anything free that does. (Does anyone know of such
> an animal?)
>
> I'm not sure if there are any licensing conflicts with doing this, but I
> imagine it would be OK.  It seems to support the feature set we need--I
> just need to go over the InstallShield script and convert the
> functionality.
>
> Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to port the installer text to the
> other languages.  Any issues with this?
>
> As a note, I'm not an InstallShield guru--I just used what was in the
> source tree to build the image.  I'm kind of surprised anything changed
> between the 1.2.9a and 1.2.10 builds other than removing the additional
> languages.
>
> -Rob Murawski
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Joyce [mailto:stephen@physics.unc.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.2.10 for
> WinNT/2000/XP available (fwd)
>
>
>
> I realize that beggars can't be choosers, but can a windows .exe
> installer for 1.2.10 be provided that obeys the /r record and /s silent
> install InstallShield features work (or a working MSI--I'm not picky).
>
> The silent install kinda-sorta worked with the 1.2.9 installer, but
> appears to not work at all with the 1.2.10 installer.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
> --
> Stephen Joyce
> Systems Administrator                                            P A N I
> C
> Physics & Astronomy Department                         Physics &
> Astronomy
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill         Network
> Infrastructure
> voice: (919) 962-7214                                        and
> Computing
> fax: (919) 962-0480
> http://www.panic.unc.edu
>
> You don't need to be faster than the bear which is chasing
> you. You merely need to be faster -- or less tasty -- than
> the others running with you.
>                --- From "Maintaining system security"
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> > As always, the latest release can be found at:
> >
> >       http://www.openfs.org/release/latest.html
> >
> > Thanks to Rob Murawski for the build.
>
>
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