How to install adobe_flash player at windows (mixed environment) minions?

[Rupert Kolb]

Hi,

I would like to install (or deinstall) the Adobe Flash Player:

- 2 versions: activeX (for IE) and plugin (for firefox et.al.)
- for 32 an 64 bit systems
- at win7 and xp (yes!)

There are some handicaps:

- pillars doesn't work in the combination "windows minion -
pkg.install". (I needed 2 days to realize this.)

- seems to work, but nothing happens:
salt 'nr-davinci' pkg.install 'Adobe Flash Player 16 NPAPI'
version='16.0.0.257'
nr-davinci:
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- errors, for instance (the minion is
"Salt-Minion-2014.7.0-AMD64-Setup.exe"):
salt 'nr-davinci' pkg.available_version 'Adobe Flash Player 16 NPAPI'
nr-davinci:
The minion function caused an exception: Traceback (most recent
call last):
File "salt/minion.py", line 1019, in _thread_return
File "salt/modules/win_pkg.py", line 95, in latest_version
File "salt/modules/win_pkg.py", line 773, in _get_latest_pkg_version
IndexError: pop from empty list

- how to put mms.cfg to the right location:
'%WINDIR%\System32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg' or
'%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg'

- ... and so on.

I'm just frustrated.

Any help?


Rupert