[chef-dev] Re: Omnibus and MSI-packages

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Anton Baranov wrote:

Hello all.

I have one question regarding compilation msi-packages with omnibus-ruby.

As i see, omnibus compiles msi with this command:

    def msi_command

      msi_command = ["light.exe",

                     "-nologo",

                     "-ext WixUIExtension",

                     "-cultures:en-us",

                     "-loc #{install_path}\\msi-tmp\\#{package_name}-en-us.wxl",

                     "#{install_path}\\msi-tmp\\#{package_name}-Files.wixobj",

                     "#{install_path}\\msi-tmp\\#{package_name}.wixobj",

                     "-out #{config.package_dir}\\#{output_package("msi")}"]

      # Don't care about the 204 return code from light.exe since it's

      # about some expected warnings...

      [msi_command.join(" "), {:returns => [0, 204]}]

    end

Could you talk, how i can redefine that and execute light.exe with some additional parameters?

I need to create some complicated msi-installer with help of your instrument, and i need ability to change parameters for light.exe.

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With best regards, Anton Baranov.

To get going, you can monkey patch the method to do what you want. You should probably generalize what you're doing and then submit a patch for omnibus to support custom MSI options.

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Daniel DeLeo