[chef] RE: Re: windows_package for Notepad++ not updating

[Arthur Penn < >]

Thanks, Julian. There must be some way to do it, because I'm pretty sure 
Puppet handles this (they demoed installing and then updating Notepad++ for 
us anyway). Here is its uninstall key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Notepad++]
"DisplayName"="Notepad++"
"Publisher"="Notepad++ Team"
"VersionMajor"="6"
"VersionMinor"="66"
"MajorVersion"="6"
"MinorVersion"="66"
"UninstallString"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\uninstall.exe"
"DisplayIcon"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe"
"DisplayVersion"="6.6.6"
"URLInfoAbout"="http://notepad-plus-plus.org/";


So DisplayVersion and several other version keys could be used rather than 
the DisplayName. DisplayVersion seems to be relatively consistent across 
installations I've made.

Thinking about how to handle this... do I check for the existence of the 
Notepad++ key, and if it exists and matches the old version, change the 
display name? That might trick Chef into seeing the version's different and 
installing it.



Arthur Penn,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Julian C. Dunn 
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Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:59 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: windows_package for Notepad++ not updating

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Arthur Penn 
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 wrote:

> I have a resource defined to install Notepad++ as follows:
>
> windows_package "Notepad++" do
>                source
> 'http://download.tuxfamily.org/notepadplus/6.6.7/npp.6.6.7.Installer.exe'
>                action :install
> end
>
> When I first deployed this, the NPP version was 6.6.6. After updating
> the source to 6.6.7 I noticed that it deployed 6.6.7 correctly to new
> nodes but did not update the nodes to which it had deployed 6.6.6. I
> believe the registry key used by NPP being simply “Notepad++” without
> the version number is the reason for the failure to update. Am I
> correct? Is there a solution for getting the update performed?

This is where Windows' not having a real native package manager really 
stinks. There's no uniform way to to do it.

I imagine you could inspect the registry to see what version of
Notepad++ was installed, if the registry stores that information, and
attempt to do something based on that.

- Julian

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