[Libosinfo] [PATCH v4 02/12] win8: Add missing cmd script for installer

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue May 3 13:45:40 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Cmd file mainly installs spice-guest-tools and that doesn't work for
>>>> windows >= 8. As you already mentioned, the avatar doesn't get
>>>> installed correctly either so I'm wondering about the usefulness of
>>>> this patch, as is.
>>>
>>> Well, at first I thought the avatar was not working because of this
>>> missing line and I had to include it, test it and then realize it's
>>> not working for any other reason that we don't know yet.
>>> So, I don't know, but IMO is better to have everything set as it is
>>> expected for a working unattended-installation (it could have saved me
>>> some time), mainly because it doesn't cause any harm.
>>
>> I don't understand the part after "IMO". If the script doesn't do what
>> it's supposed to, why do we want to include it? Why not just add it
>> commented out with a comment saying why it's not included?
>
> Well, even if the user avatar doesn't work, installing the
> drivers/guest tools should, no?

What? I thought we established that spice-guest-tools does not work
for Windows >= 8.

> So, considering it does, removing the whole cmd file because the
> avatar doesn't work simply doesn't make sense for me.
>
>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> From: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in | 1 +
>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in
>>>>> index d20b239..50a1a31 100644
>>>>> --- a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in
>>>>> +++ b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in
>>>>> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
>>>>>      <installer>
>>>>>        <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/jeos'/>
>>>>>        <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/desktop'/>
>>>>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/cmd/desktop'/>
>>>>>      </installer>
>>>>>    </os>
>>>>>  </libosinfo>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 2.7.3
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fabiano Fidêncio
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)



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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)




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