[OTR-users] silent / unattended upgrade of 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 / 4.0

[Ian Goldberg]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:04:23AM +0000, Pete Boyd wrote:
> Hi. I'd like to roll out an upgrade from Pidgin OTR 3.2.0-1 to 3.2.1-2
> to fix the security flaw across various computers running Windows XP.
> 
> I use WPKG to automatically deploy software to workstations and have
> used 'pidgin-otr-3.2.0-1.exe /S' to initially silently install 3.2.0.
> 
> Running 'pidgin-otr-3.2.1-1.exe /S' gives dialogs saying 'pidgin-otr was
> already found on your system and will first be uninstalled' and 'Are you
> sure you want to completely remove pidgin-otr 3.2.0-1 and all of its
> components?'.
> 
> If I instead do an uninstall of 3.2.0-1 first, using
> 'pidgin-otr-uninst.exe /S', then I still get 'Are you sure you want to
> completely remove pidgin-otr 3.2.0-1 and all of its components?'.
> 
> I've tried upgrading to 4.0.0-1 instead, using 'pidgin-otr-4.0.0-1.exe
> /S', and it also isn't silent, but at least just gives the one dialog
> 'Are you sure you want to completely remove pidgin-otr 3.2.0-1 and all
> of its components?'
> 
> How do I perform a silent uninstall or upgrade please? Preferably to
> 3.2.1, but alternatively to 4.0?
> Thanks

The problem with the (not working) silent uninstall was fixed in August.
But if people currently have 3.2.0 (with the old nsis script), the 3.2.0
uninstaller isn't silent, so I don't know that there's away to do it,
I'm afraid.  But I don't know all the ins and outs of nsis (hence the
original problem), so I could be mistaken.

   - Ian