I know its quite late to respond on this (I have issued similar issue in
another group and got a good answer pointing among other links to this
thread)
having said that, are you sure there isn't a MS API for 'registered' MSI
installations?
I used this script from MS online documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369767%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
it sort of claim they have a simple API to exract info on all registered
MSIs with windows installer.
I used the script and indeed it has shown All installed MSIs, without
'discriminating' our 'hidden' MSIs :)
that's how I realized there must be some dependency of Puppet windows
package provider on the add/remove programs...
So, have I missed something? is the claim that MS API doesn't exist still
in tact? (and I'm btw a *nix person, who unfortunately has to deal
sometimes with MS stuff...)
I would love to have "ensure => ${version}" working for our hundreds of MSI
components. Currently doesn't (puppet 3.6)
Thanks
On Monday, June 24, 2013 7:47:30 PM UTC+3, Josh Cooper wrote:
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>
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Adnan Chowdhury
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> I don't foresee any bad side-effects.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Josh Cooper
>> <[email protected]<javascript:>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, June 13, 2013, Reginald Choudari wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 5:23:50 PM UTC-4, Josh Cooper wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Reginald Choudari <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Tried renaming the title of the resource to what the name attribute
>>>>>> was set to; no go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After doing a 'puppet resource package' on the agent, I see a list of
>>>>>> packages but the package listed here is not shown ... I confirmed that
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> is still showing 'ensure: created' in the event logs every puppet run.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you export the Uninstall registry key for that package? I want to
>>>>> see what the SystemComponent, etc values are.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, June 7, 2013 10:54:36 AM UTC-4, Reginald Choudari wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've got Package resource on my Windows machine that keeps creating
>>>>>>> itself even though the package has been properly installed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've got the name attribute set to the DisplayName found in the
>>>>>>> Registry for the package.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Every time the agent polls, I see in the Event Logs:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /Stage[main]/Mssql_rtwo_sptwo/Package[mssql2008r2sp2_exec]/ensure:
>>>>>>> created
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is what's in my manifest:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> package { 'mssql2008r2sp2_exec':
>>>>>>> ensure => installed,
>>>>>>> name => 'SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Common Files',
>>>>>>> provider => windows,
>>>>>>> source => "C:\\puppet_temp\\${mssql_filename}",
>>>>>>> install_options => ['/quiet', '/IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms',
>>>>>>> '/allinstances'],
>>>>>>> require => Exec['run_mssql2008r2sp2_artif
>>>>>>> act_extract_ps1'],
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm thinking there has got to be some weird bug/error with this ...
>>>>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>>>
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>>>
>>> Unfortunately, Windows does not have an API for retrieving installed
>>> packages. So we scan the registry and apply heuristics to determine which
>>> packages to report on.
>>>
>>> The overall goal has been for Puppet to report on the same set of
>>> packages that you see in Add/Remove Programs. Packages whose registry
>>> value SystemComponent=1 are hidden from ARP, so Puppet does the same, see
>>> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/package/windows/exe_package.rb#L34
>>>
>>> Since Puppet never reports on SystemComponents, it will always think
>>> they are absent, and need to be installed each time it runs.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking Puppet should not exclude SystemComponents? Are there any
>>> bad side effects if we included them?
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>>
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