[Libosinfo] [v3 2/3] Adapt windows-unattend.xml for Windows 8

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue Feb 26 15:59:38 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:39:21PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> While modifying this patch to try this out, I now clearly remember
>> each of these changes (there are actually only 2 real changes)
>> breaking win7 installer. So not motivated to try yet again. Feel free
>> to challenge my claim/memory and try.
>
> I played a bit with this,

Thanks for testing it further.

> with a non-empty product key, adding the Win8
> <ProductKey> bits while keeping or removing the Win7 <ProductKey> bits
> break win7 unattended install in all cases.
> Removing the /IMAGE/INDEX bits also break win7 unattended install.

Yup, thats exactly what happened.

> Removing
> <xsl:attribute name="processorArchitecture">
>   <xsl:call-template name="arch"/>
> </xsl:attribute>
> from one of the win7-only blocks don't seem to break win7 unattended install.

There is no *standalone* hunk in this patch that adds/removes such
attribute AFAICT.

>> >> The install scripts are
>> >> unreadable enough that the less conditional stuff we add, the better )
>> >
>> > Agreed.
>>
>> Still agree but in this case they are justified.
>
> And still too bad there was nothing in the commit log about all of this :(

Can be easily fixed. :)

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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