https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80297
--- Comment #4 from Olivier DAIAN <[email protected]> --- For easier reading, I add the comment here : Hello, As reporter for bug #80297, and as a not so "small business company IT administrator" but with a small IT team (2 guys in fact) I need to enter the discussion about the new MSI behavior. If we consider that full installation is the only "good" way to go with LibreOffice 4.2, then there is a problem with upgrade process that still only upgrade previously installed components but doesn't install other available components by default. Bfoman said "If a company have Office Basic installations without PowerPoint, then it would like to install just Impress and not a whole package. Such users do not need Writer, Calc, LibreLogo etc.". This is what we did in fact : we manually installed Draw and Impress to a lot of computers because we couldn't pay for MS Visio and Powerpoint (and that it was a good way to introduce opensource and talk about this with users). It was release 3.6.5. Recently, we tried to upgrade to release 4.1.xx on Win XP and 7 with or without success depending on the computer, but we didn't find the reason. I know a lot of companies that wouldn't have tried more than 1 day before calling an MS reseller and asked for MS Office licences... We then decided not to upgrade LibreOffice at all. :-/ Somes days ago, I tried the newest release 4.2.4.2, with the same problem but I finally understood that the problem only appears when upgrading from a partial installation of LibreOffice. Now, I need to deploy LibreOffice to 250 computers. My goal is to use a Software Installation Group Policy. This is not a script based process, and it does not allow to use command line parameter : the MSI is supposed to behave the way you want, or you can tweak the MSI tables, or you can provide a MST file to specify necessary parameters. First solution : MSI behavior => NOK => the MSI upgrade process does not install missing components that where not previously installed. Therefore, the new upgraded installation does not work anymore... Second solution : tweak MSI => OK but... => You can add an "ADDLOCAL" parameter with "ALL" as a value in the PROPERTY table. This method seems to work but MS explain that it should be avoid (don't ask me why... I am not an MSI guru :)) (source : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367536%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) Third solution : MST file => not tried... is there a way to create this MST file with expected parameter for a "force all components" upgrade process ? The path to upgrade isn't really clear for MS network sys admins... Would it be possible to change the MSI default upgrade behavior to not only upgrade already installed components but also install the other available components (nearly equivalent to uninstall existing release and install full new release) ? Should this be transformed into a feature request ? Regards, Olivier -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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