cookbook 'winstaller', '~> 1.0.3'
winstaller (1) Versions 1.0.3 Follow2
Installs/Configures Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable
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Description
Released Versions of Windows Installer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa371185(v=vs.85).aspx
Windows Installer 4.5 4.5.6002.18005 Released with Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack (SP2.)
Windows Installer 4.5 4.5.6001.22162 Released as a redistributable for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista with SP1.
Windows Installer 4.5 4.5.6001.22159 Released as a redistributable for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and later, and Windows Server 2003 with SP1 and later.
Requirements
Powershell, unfortunately. Community cookbook "powershell" will satisfy that dependency. Winstaller version >= 0.0.4 has been tested with Windows 2003 i386, 2008 i386, and 2008 R2 x86_64. No Itanium systems to test with.
Attributes
Windows Installer Redistributables Download locations:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8483
Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-ia64.msu 3.4 MB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/1/261fca42-22c0-4f91-9451-0e0f2e08356d/Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-ia64.msu
Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu 2.9 MB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/1/261fca42-22c0-4f91-9451-0e0f2e08356d/Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu
Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu 1.7 MB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/1/261fca42-22c0-4f91-9451-0e0f2e08356d/Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu
WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-ia64.exe 24.6 MB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/1/261fca42-22c0-4f91-9451-0e0f2e08356d/WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-ia64.exe
WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe 4.5 MB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/1/261fca42-22c0-4f91-9451-0e0f2e08356d/WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe
WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x86.exe 2.9 MB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/1/261fca42-22c0-4f91-9451-0e0f2e08356d/WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x86.exe
WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe 3.2 MB
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/1/261fca42-22c0-4f91-9451-0e0f2e08356d/WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe
(unsupported by this cookbook, sorry, only server OS need apply)
Usage
There is really very little to do: if you need the Windows Installer v4.5, winstaller will ensure that it is installed.
Does not currently work with Windows 2008 R2 x86_64 OS, which comes with Windows Installer v5 pre-installed.
Windows Installer Redistributables MSDN documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372856(v=vs.85)
The Windows Installer 4.5 resdistributable is provided for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems as a .msu file and should be installed using the Windows Update Stand-alone Installer (Wusa.exe.)
The Windows Installer 4.5 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 redistributables can be installed using the following command line syntax and options: <Name of the Redistributable> /quiet /norestart
The /norestart command-line option prevents wusa.exe from restarting the computer. However, if a file being updated by the MSU package is in use, then the package is not applied to the computer until the user restarts the computer. This means that applications that use the Windows Installer 4.5 redistributable for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 cannot use the Windows Installer 4.5 functionality until the computer is restarted.
It is recommended that the Windows Installer service be stopped when using the update package. When the package is run in full UI mode it detects if the Windows Installer service is running and requests the user to stop the service. If the user continues without stopping the service, the update replaces Windows Installer.
Description of the Windows Update Stand-alone Installer (Wusa.exe) and of.msu files in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 found here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934307
Determining the Windows Installer Version
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368280(v=vs.85).aspx
Collaborator Number Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: Cookbook has 0 collaborators. A cookbook must have at least 2 collaborators to pass this metric.
Contributing File Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file
Foodcritic Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
FC064: Ensure issues_url is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC065: Ensure source_url is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC066: Ensure chef_version is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC069: Ensure standardized license defined in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
Run with Foodcritic Version 16.3.0 with tags metadata,correctness ~FC031 ~FC045 and failure tags any
No Binaries Metric
1.0.3 passed this metric
Testing File Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file
Version Tag Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number
1.0.3 failed this metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file
Foodcritic Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
FC064: Ensure issues_url is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC065: Ensure source_url is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC066: Ensure chef_version is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC069: Ensure standardized license defined in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
Run with Foodcritic Version 16.3.0 with tags metadata,correctness ~FC031 ~FC045 and failure tags any
No Binaries Metric
1.0.3 passed this metric
Testing File Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file
Version Tag Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number
1.0.3 failed this metric
FC065: Ensure source_url is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC066: Ensure chef_version is set in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
FC069: Ensure standardized license defined in metadata: winstaller/metadata.rb:1
Run with Foodcritic Version 16.3.0 with tags metadata,correctness ~FC031 ~FC045 and failure tags any
1.0.3 passed this metric
Testing File Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file
Version Tag Metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number
1.0.3 failed this metric
1.0.3 failed this metric
Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number
