What's wrong with svscmd.exe and msi installer?
Updated: 28 Aug 2010 | 3 comments
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I'm trying to use SVSCmd to create a new layer using -> SVSCMD.exe "Application Name" CAPTURE -P "MSIEXEC /i PathTo.msi" <- (or in my case -> SVSCMD.exe "Synctoy" CAPTURE -P "msiexec.exe /i C:\Synctoy.msi" <- )
...but it's not working, it just returns the following error:
Failed to create the requested process.
Error: 1063
SVSCMD failed: CAPTURE
I'm using SWV 6.1(tried on XP and windows 7 machines) and .exe capture with SVSCmd is working perfectly and also .msi can be captured using SVSAdmin with no problems.... but I really need to use SVSCmd...
Please, help me! This is driving me insane!
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There's a bug with SVScmd that doesn't allow spaces in paths to the MSI. To get around this I generally create a batch file that has the path (spaces and all) and then point to that file.
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Thanks! that seems to work, but do you know if there are any plans to fix that bug? :D
By the way, I guess using directly a wrapper for fsllib.dll would bypass that problem, wouldn't it?
You mean directly passing the MSI path to the capture API? Yes that doesn't have the problem as far as I'm aware.
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