Bug 160979 - WiX packaged MSI installer offering only LO "program" and "font" for custom install
Summary: WiX packaged MSI installer offering only LO "program" and "font" for custom i...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version:
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24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All Windows (All)
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Blocks: WiX-msicreator
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Reported: 2024-05-07 16:48 UTC by V Stuart Foote
Modified: 2024-05-07 17:22 UTC (History)
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Clip of options panel of an msiexec install of the TB78 20240507 WiX build (55.14 KB, image/png)
2024-05-07 16:50 UTC, V Stuart Foote
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Description V Stuart Foote 2024-05-07 16:48:11 UTC
Current Jenkins TB78 Windows build with WiX packaging [1] does not provide customization option selections available with Cygwin msitools based builds.

Typical msiexec.exe /a Administrative installs for testing not affected, but doing actual /i installs are uncomfortable with the package as is. Expect also we'll need to test the optional features with the WiX packaging get laid down correctly.

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[1] https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Win-x86_64@tb78-pollux-TDF_wix/
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2024-05-07 16:50:05 UTC
Created attachment 194017 [details]
Clip of options panel of an msiexec install of the TB78 20240507 WiX build
Comment 2 Jussi Pakkanen 2024-05-07 17:22:48 UTC
The reason it has only those two was that originally it was meant to illustrate how things can be split into selectable packages. Once that was done there was nothing more to do as we had to wait until upstream took care of all the CI work and so on.

There was also some discussion that maybe the installer should not even provide selectable options. The macOS installer does not do that either and it would simplify the implementation. But that is a policy decision for other people to make.