Hi,
We have many reports related to problems with installing strawberry perl
via MSI installer. Like troubles with installing on non-C: drive, troubles
with installing on a machine completely without C: drive, some permission
related issues etc.
I have prepared redesigned version of MSI (it is 5.19.11.4) and made it
available at http://strawberryperl.com/beta/ - visually it looks exactly as
the old installer but guts changed a lot.
If you have experienced in past any troubles with MSI installer or if you
can test it on a unusual machine (like one with system drive D: without
drive C:) or if you can test it on a box with some unusual UAC settings -
please get the latest beta from URL above and check if the MSI installer
works for you.
In case of troubles run:
c:\anydir> msiexec /l*vx install.log /i strawberry-perl-5.19.11.4-64bit.msi
and send me install.log (off-list)
The second issue is related to our highly respected sponsor <ad>
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reports a security warning related to strawberry perl installation. In
short it says that PATH contains directories (c:\strawberry\c\bin
c:\strawberry\perl\site\bin c:\strawberry\perl\bin) which are writable by
too wide group of users (built-in Users or even Authenticated Users).
We currently do not explicitly set any filesystem ACL therefore
C:\strawberry directory gets some ACL inherited from C:\ which is probably
mostly fine but might be a trouble if you choose another directory (or
another drive) which parent dir has some strange and/or unexpected ACL. I
feel that our MSI should probably set some filesystem ACL on C:\strawberry
(which is supported by WiX Toolset we use for MSI creation) but I am not
sure what it should be (e.g. Administrators+SYSTEM/FullControl,
Users/Read+Execute ?). Any ideas or preferably experiences with building
MSI are welcome.
--
kmx
