KDE Installer reinstalls vcredist

[Christian Ehrlicher]

> Von: Ralf Habacker
> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> >> Von: Ralf Habacker
> >> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> >>     
> >>> S Page schrieb:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> 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!
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> The installer can't handle executables correct now. It has to check
> for
> >>> a registry key if the redist package is already installed -> TODO
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> 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 ?

It *should* work for all packages which add an entry to the software uninstall menu once you've identified the correct key.


Christian
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