Windows Package Manager with MSI files

[Joe Healy]

Hi,

We've been playing with the windows package manager with some success,
but have a question regarding uninstallation of msi files.

Our particular example is 7-zip.

We are able to install msi installers nicely, but uninstalling
silently seems to give us trouble.

To install an msi file we have used the following init.sls file

7zip:
9.22:
installer: salt://win/repo/7zip/7z922-x64.msi
full_name: 7zip 9.22
reboot: False
install_flags: ' /q '
uninstaller: salt://win/repo/7zip/7z922-x64.msi
uninstall_flags: ' /qn /x'

following the directions in
https://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/windows-package-manager.html?highlight=windows
we have been able to install but not uninstall.

we have tested the install and uninstall commands on the windows
minion directly. To install we require

7z922-x64.msi \q

however to uninstall we understand that the command needs to be

msiexec \qn \x program.msi

but are unsure how to send this through salt.

Cheers,

Joe

[David Boucha]

I'm posting this from my phone, so this is completely untested, but try changing the following 2 lines:

uninstaller: salt://win/repo/7zip/7z922-x64.msi uninstall_flags: ' /qn /x'

To:
uninstaller: 'msiexec'
uninstall_flags: ' /qn /x 7z922-x64.msi'

You might need the full path to the cached installer

I might need to add in some logic to handle situations like this better.

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[Joe Healy]

Thanks for the quick response.

I tried the full paths to msiexec and the cached installer, but
msiexec still popped up a dialog.

It may be something in the way it is run though. I'll keep playing
with various options from the command line then trying to replicate
through the pkg manager.

Also should the pkg.installed state work - we get errors that the
windows version in unavailable.

Thanks,

Joe

[Joe Healy]

The following ended up working:

uninstaller: msiexec
uninstall_flags: ' /qn /x

"C:\salt\var\cache\salt\minion\files\base\win\repo\7zip\7z922-x64.msi"
'

Thanks very much for your help.

Joe


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:16 PM, David Boucha <da...@saltstack.com> wrote:

[David Boucha]

I need to come up with a less clunky way to do that, but I'm glad it's working!  Thanks for the feedback. There's still work to do to solidify all the Windows stuff.

Dave Boucha  |  Sr. Engineer

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[David Boucha]

Joe,

I've come up with a better way to handle msi installers that require using msiexec. 

Here's the pull request:  https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/3735

[Joe Healy]

Great - I'm out of the office, so it will be monday before we can try this, but looks like it will be much simpler.

thanks very much.

Joe