Administrative installation adds inappropriate registry entries

[romw]

Reported by Richard Haselgrove on 19 Jun 39144534 20:26 UTC
Running the installer with the '/a' (administrative installation) switch should not make changes to the local sysem registry.

Testing with both v6.4.5 and v6.6.10, I found that both INSTALLDIR and DATADIR were set to point to the network server image directory - this would break any running BOINC v6 on the workstation used for network upload. Fortunately I was running BOINC v5.

However, the administrative installer does not read back either registry key for subsequent installations - it defaults to the root of the first available mapped network drive.

An administrative installation should either make no local registry changes at all, or maintain and use its own ADMININSTALLDIR key.

Also, the final screen (attached) on the test machine (Windows XP SP3, workgroup) is contradictory - if the installation was successful (as it appears to have been), why am I being directed to run a repair tool from add/remove programs?

Migrated-From: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/847

[romw]

Commented by Nicolas on 20 Feb 39150510 07:06 UTC
"InstallShield wizard" is an implementation detail, internal and technical information the user doesn't care about. "BOINC installation" finished, not "InstallShield wizard".

[romw]

Commented by romw on 27 Oct 39159104 19:33 UTC
Punting setup bugs to 6.10.

[romw]

Commented by Richard Haselgrove on 5 May 39169958 11:33 UTC
Following an enquiry about admin setups at SETI, I tested the v6.2.19 installer: yes, it modifies the local registry too. Just warning people in case they decide not to wait until v6.10.x before trying their next admin setup.

[romw]

Commented by ChristianB on 27 Jan 40704897 14:13 UTC
Is this fixed in 6.10? Please reopen when not.

[romw]

Commented by Richard Haselgrove on 17 Oct 40704973 10:13 UTC
Tested both 6.10.58 and 6.11.7 under Windows XP. Problem remains as originally described. Reopening ticket.

[romw]

Commented by romw on 3 Jun 40859072 11:33 UTC
Setup bugs are being punted to a future release. This work item should be completed with the new open source installer.

[romw]

Commented by Richard Haselgrove on 23 Nov 43314006 18:30 UTC
Behaviour remains the same in v7.0.64

[ChristianBeer]

I guess this is still a problem with current 7.6.33. Moving to 8.0 Milestone as this is most likely fixed when moving away from InstallShield.

[Ageless93]

Will we ever move away from InstallShield?

[RichardHaselgrove]

Retested with v7.8.3, at Jord's request. Couldn't deploy to a remote drive because of network configuration changes here (I don't have a dedicated server any more), but the registry corruption still occurs as before.
BOINC RH Admin install.txt

[truboxl]

While searching Google, I come across this Superuser thread

Should be helpful to others who want to extract BOINC for network or portable install without tampering registries and admin rights

cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" boinc_7.8.3_windows_x86_64.exe /V /a"

[RichardHaselgrove]

Thanks for that - tested and works as advertised. I've added it to the user manual at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Creating_custom_installers