[Libosinfo] [PATCH 8/8] winxp, installer: Make use of post-installation drivers

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 17:19:43 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 05:45:25PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > You can't expect every possible Windows exe file to honour the /S switch.
> 
> If a binary doesn't support '/S' switch, it will ignore it?

Or fail saying it's an unknown parameter?

> 
> > I'd tend to go with a list of files + a .cmd file which contains the actual
> > commands to run (osinfo-*.cmd would be even better but I'm not 100% sure
> > Windows accept such wildcards).
> > This would let us handle .msi file, unpacked drivers should be possible too
> > with an appropriate .cmd file, ...
> 
> This would mean that either us or the driver setup distributor will
> have to provide a cmd file with it?

Yup, but we currently only have a single binary to support, and there is
already a need for a flag, so we need a way to support this in a more
flexible way than hardcoding it in libosinfo imo.

Christophe
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