Hi Adam, On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM, ad <adam.denn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey Josh, >> >> On Friday, August 17, 2012 11:38:08 AM UTC-5, Josh Cooper wrote: >> >> >> I have a standardlib type module with generic functions for things like >> >> download, md5, etc. that are used in other custom types. Lacking a >> >> robust >> >> shell, tools, and package management on Windows, I find this approach >> >> cleaner than trying to ship binaries and use cmd.exe. >> >> > It would be great to get this on the forge, would you be willing to >> > publish it? >> >> It needs some refactoring to get company specific stuff out right now, but >> sure I'll try to make time to do that.
Awesome, thanks! >> >> Also, check out Ruby's win32 stuff, or even just wmic. You may find >> >> working >> >> with MSI's easier this way than using the 2.7x type in Puppet. >> >> > Be careful with wmic and msi's. Simply enumerating the list of >> > installed products will cause wmi to perform a consistency check >> > across all installed products[1]. Probably not what you wanted! >> >> Yeah I know, it's crazy! This is why I get product versions from >> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall instead. This is the same approach I'm using in 3.x, including handling registry redirection for 32 vs 64 bit apps: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/3.x/lib/puppet/provider/package/windows/package.rb#L32 Josh -- Josh Cooper Developer, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
