KDE Installer reinstalls vcredist

[Ralf Habacker]

Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
>> Von: Ralf Habacker
>> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
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>>> S Page schrieb:
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>>>> It seems kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.1-2.exe can't detect if vcredist is 
>>>> installed, so KDE Installer never displays a checkmark next to it and 
>>>> always reinstalls (but not re-downloads) vcredist_x86.exe when you 
>>>> install something else that depends on vcredist.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for KDE Installer!
>>>>
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>>> The installer can't handle executables correct now. It has to check for
>>> a registry key if the redist package is already installed -> TODO
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>>>       
>> The question is how could the install detect where a specific exe has 
>> registrated in the registry by itself.
>> Wouldn't it be easier to create a .mft and .ver file in the manifest dir 
>> on the fly to detect install state ?
>>
>>     
> When you can be sure that the user did not abort the install, yes... :)
> I already found the specific registry key for this package.
>   
Would this work also for other packages or is this specific for this 
single package and the related key has to be determined for every other 
package ?
Ralf