[Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla official MSI installers available on Nightly

[Mike Kaply]

If you consider these bugs, please open bugs in Bugzilla for them.

Thanks!

Mike

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 4:35 AM Alexandre Gauvrit <agauvrit at tranquil.it>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have tried to deploy the beta Firefox MSI and found several things :
>
>    - Installation goes well when doing it manually.
>    - Overwriting an exisiting *.exe installation goes well, no conflicts
>
> If I try to install it silently/automatically using a deployment tool I
> have several issues with the *.msi file properties :
>
>    - "ProductCode" property must be equal to the registry uninstallkey
>    'Mozilla Firefox 65.0a1 x64 fr', not to a random UID (or maybe you want to
>    change that behavior and use UID ?)
>    - "ProductVersion" property must be equal to actual Mozilla Firefox
>    version, not "0.0.0.0"
>    - "ProductLanguage" must be filled with a correct value like 1033 /
>    1036 etc.
>
> On why those properties must be correctly filled :
>
>    - it's easier for deployment tools to retrieve version
>    number/uninstallkey from the MSI file as it's a standard to have it set
>    correctly in MSI files
>    - it allows deployment tools to verify the good status of installation
>    after the installation by checking these values in registry
>
> Here is the current Firefox MSI properties Json output :
>
> {'DESKTOP_SHORTCUT': 'true',
>  'EXTRACT_DIR': '__DEFAULT__',
>  'INSTALL_DIRECTORY_NAME': '__DEFAULT__',
>  'INSTALL_DIRECTORY_PATH': '__DEFAULT__',
>  'INSTALL_MAINTENANCE_SERVICE': 'true',
>  'Manufacturer': 'Mozilla',
>  'OPTIONAL_EXTENSIONS': 'true',
>  'PREVENT_REBOOT_REQUIRED': 'false',
>  'ProductCode': '{1294A4C5-9977-480F-9497-C0EA1E630130}',
>  'ProductLanguage': '0',
>  'ProductName': 'Mozilla Firefox 65.0a1 x64 fr',
>  'ProductVersion': '0.0.0.0',
>  'REMOVE_DISTRIBUTION_DIR': 'true',
>  'START_MENU_SHORTCUT': 'true',
>  'TASKBAR_SHORTCUT': 'true',
>  'UpgradeCode': '{3118AB4C-B433-4FBB-B9FA-8F9CA4B5C103}'}
>
> Final question, is '-ms' argument really necessary ? Do you keep it for
> legacy purpose or just for fun ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Alexandre
> On 28/11/2018 14:53, Romain Testard wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We recently started to make MSI installers (wrappers of the full exe
> installer) available as part of our build/release process in order to help
> make Windows enterprise deployments simpler. These are now available on
> Nightly and will be riding the trains to release with Firefox 65 (will also
> be available on our next ESR).
>
> You can find documentation here
> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-customization-msi-installers>
> (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-customization-msi-installers)
> that helps understand how to customize Firefox installations with the MSI
> installers and it would be great if people on this list who find MSI
> installers valuable on their deployments could start testing it. Feedback
> can be provided on this list if valuable for all, on bugzilla
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Installer>
> for technical issues or directly to me otherwise.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Romain
>
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