MSI- Push installs receives the success status early

[ssubramaniam]

Push installs receives the Install success state once MSI extraction process is done. This leads the wrong information to the caller.

Also, noticed when logging the information using command line "Feature.msi /q /log output.log". Only logged till the point MSI gets extracted (Ignore using LOGGED variable inside the script).

Is there any best way to handle this ?

Thanks,
Senthil

[FrancescoT]

Dear Senthil,

Push installs receives the Install success state once MSI extraction process is done. This leads the wrong information to the caller.

I suppose you are referring to the same argument already discussed with the following forum thread;
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9957
... unfortunately, it doesn't exist a possible workaround yet.

Also, noticed when logging the information using command line "Feature.msi /q /log output.log". Only logged till the point MSI gets extracted (Ignore using LOGGED variable inside the script).

Please have a look at the following link.
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9639

Hope this helps you.

Regards

[ssubramaniam]

Do you have any idea when this exit code 0 issue will gets fixed ? this is highly required feature in order to use 3rd party push installs.

I had an another issue with exit code 0, when I pass the additional files as part of 3rd party push installs then its removes the source file from push installs target directory once the extraction process is done. Finally, the InstallAware script expects an additional files which was passed through push installs but unfortunately it has been deleted by caller based on the exit code value 0.

Do you have any workaround solution for this issue?

Thanks,
Senthil

[FrancescoT]

Dear Senthil,

unfortunately, at the moment I don't know when a possible fix will be available.

For what concerns your problem with using 3rd party installers, I am not quite sure to follow your problem.

Are you executing those packages with placing them within the Push directory?
If true, why did you not embed them with your installer through the SUPPORTDIR functionality?

Please refer to SUPPORTDIR with the IA documentation for more details.

Regards

[ssubramaniam]

Thanks Francesco,

I am using PDQ deploy(Push install tool). In which I am passing external file as parameter (components, language section and etc...) to install required feature on the target machine. So, I may not able to embed this file with MSI.

Is there any option to copy files from GPOPATH during MSI extraction process ? If No then we can do not have any workaround solution too.

Thanks,
Senthil

[FrancescoT]

Dear Senthil,

I am very sorry, but I am not sure to understand.

Regardless of the tool you use, do you have a sort of main installer released with IA along with those 3rd party installers?

Regards