[Bug 58415] New: Wine msiexec behaviour deviates from MS msiexec for tables missing from .msi

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58415

Bug ID: 58415
           Summary: Wine msiexec behaviour deviates from MS msiexec for
                    tables missing from .msi
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.0
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: msi
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

While investigating a problematic .msi file, I noticed the following:

The .msi file in its InstallExecuteSequence calls functions that depend on
tables in the msi. However these tables do not exit.

Examples found:
"LaunchConditions", but no "LaunchCondition Table"
"IsolateComponents", but no "IsolatedComponent Table"
"PublishComponents/UnpublishComponents", but no "PublishComponent Table"
"RegisterMIMEInfo/UnregisterMIMEInfo", but no "MIME table"
"RegisterTypeLibraries/UnregisterTypeLibraries", but no "TypeLib table"
"RegisterComPlus/UnregisterComPlus", but no "Complus table"

When MS msiexec processes the .msi, it reports "Return value 0" in these cases.
However when Wine msiexec does the same, it reports "Return value 1" instead.

When modifying the .msi with the Orca MSI editor adding the missing tables
(left empty), then MS msiexec reports "Return value 1", and Wine msiexec does
the same.

So there is a mismatch between the two implementations; I would conclude that
Wine msiexec is missing a check for missing tables.

Whether there are problems resulting from this difference in behaviour I cannot
say, but it is at least not making investigations of .msi-issues any easier.

[Bug 58415] Wine msiexec behaviour deviates from MS msiexec for tables missing from .msi

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58415

Ken Sharp  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp  ---
Is the installer you were testing available to download?

[Bug 58415] Wine msiexec behaviour deviates from MS msiexec for tables missing from .msi

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58415

Renzo de Paoli  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Renzo de Paoli  ---
Created attachment 78836
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78836
Test case "SimpleInstall" for illustration

Two simple .msi files, both call IsolateComponents, but one has the
corresponding table, while the other does not.

Logfiles are included based on CLI use:
Wine 10.0
msiexec /i SimpleInstall_IsolateComponent_woTable.msi /qb /L*X
woTableLogWine.txt
msiexec /i SimpleInstall_IsolateComponent_wTable.msi /qb /L*X wTableLogWine.txt

Win10
msiexec /i SimpleInstall_IsolateComponent_woTable.msi /qb /L*X
woTableLogWin.txt
msiexec /i SimpleInstall_IsolateComponent_wTable.msi /qb /L*X wTableLogWin.txt

[Bug 58415] Wine msiexec behaviour deviates from MS msiexec for tables missing from .msi

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58415

--- Comment #3 from Renzo de Paoli  ---
(In reply to Ken Sharp from comment #1)
> Is the installer you were testing available to download?

Good morning Ken.

The installer in question is part of Solidworks 2020 SP5
(swwi/data/solidworks.msi, ~50MiB).
AFAIK, there is no publicly available download other than registering for a
trial.

However, I created "SimpleInstalls" that should illustrate the case based on
the IsolatedComponent function and table.

I included the log files I got when running them under Win10 and Wine.

I hope this helps.

[Bug 58415] Wine msiexec behaviour deviates from MS msiexec for tables missing from .msi

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58415

Ken Sharp  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Ken Sharp  ---
That's great. Thank you.

The only other thing to test is the latest version of Wine (currently 10.10) to
make sure it hasn't already been fixed.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Download