wix: tell ComponentSearch that it is finding a directory (not a file)
This is to fix an issue we've noticed where fresh installations start at
`C:\Program Files\Mercurial`, and then upgrades "walk up" the tree and end up in
`C:\Program Files` and finally `C:\` (where they stay).
ComponentSearch defaults to finding files, which I think means "it produces a
string like `C:\Program Files\Mercurial`", whereas with the type being
explicitly a directory, it would return `C:\Program Files\Mercurial\` (note the
final trailing backslash). Presumably, a latter step then tries to turn that
file name into a proper directory, by removing everything after the last `\`.
This could likely also be fixed by actually searching for the component for
hg.exe itself. That seemed a lot more complicated, as the GUID for hg.exe isn't
known in this file (it's one of the "auto-derived" ones). We could also consider
adding a Condition that I think could check the Property and ensure it's either
empty or ends in a trailing slash, but that would be an installer runtime check
and I'm not convinced it'd actually be useful.
This will *not* cause existing installations that are in one of the bad
directories to fix themselves. Doing that would require a fair amount more
understanding of wix and windows installer than I have, and it *probably*
wouldn't be possible to be 100% correct about it either (there's nothing
preventing a user from intentionally installing it in C:\, though I don't know
why they would do so).
If someone wants to tackle fixing existing installations, I think that the first
installation is actually the only one that shows up in "Add or Remove Programs",
and that its registry keys still exist. You might be able to find something
under HKEY_USERS that lists both the "good" and the "bad" InstallDirs. Mine was
under `HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Mercurial\InstallDir` (C:\), and
`HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-..numbers..\Software\Mercurial\InstallDir` (C:\Program
Files\Mercurial). If you find exactly two, with one being the default path, and
the other being a prefix of it, the user almost certainly hit this bug :D
We had originally thought that this bug might be due to unattended
installations/upgrades, but I no longer think that's the case. We were able to
reproduce the issue by uninstalling all copies of Mercurial I could find,
installing one version (it chose the correct location), and then starting the
installer for a different version (higher or lower didn't matter). I did not
need to deal with an unattended or headless installation/upgrade to trigger the
issue, but it's possible that my system was "primed" for this bug to happen
because of a previous unattended installation/upgrade.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9891
#require tla symlink
$ tla my-id "mercurial <mercurial@mercurial-scm.org>"
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "convert=" >> $HGRCPATH
create tla archive
$ tla make-archive tla@mercurial--convert `pwd`/hg-test-convert-tla
initialize tla repo
$ mkdir tla-repo
$ cd tla-repo/
$ tla init-tree tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0
$ tla import
* creating version tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0
* imported tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0
create initial files
$ echo 'this is a file' > a
$ tla add a
$ mkdir src
$ tla add src
$ cd src
$ dd count=1 if=/dev/zero of=b > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
$ tla add b
$ tla commit -s "added a file, src and src/b (binary)"
A/ .arch-ids
A/ src
A/ src/.arch-ids
A .arch-ids/a.id
A a
A src/.arch-ids/=id
A src/.arch-ids/b.id
A src/b
* update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--base-0 => tla--test--0--patch-1)
* committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-1
create link file and modify a
$ ln -s ../a a-link
$ tla add a-link
$ echo 'this a modification to a' >> ../a
$ tla commit -s "added link to a and modify a"
A src/.arch-ids/a-link.id
A src/a-link
M a
* update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-1 => tla--test--0--patch-2)
* committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-2
create second link and modify b
$ ln -s ../a a-link-2
$ tla add a-link-2
$ dd count=1 seek=1 if=/dev/zero of=b > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
$ tla commit -s "added second link and modify b"
A src/.arch-ids/a-link-2.id
A src/a-link-2
Mb src/b
* update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-2 => tla--test--0--patch-3)
* committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-3
b file to link and a-link-2 to regular file
$ rm -f a-link-2
$ echo 'this is now a regular file' > a-link-2
$ ln -sf ../a b
$ tla commit -s "file to link and link to file test"
fl src/b
lf src/a-link-2
* update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-3 => tla--test--0--patch-4)
* committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-4
move a-link-2 file and src directory
$ cd ..
$ tla mv src/a-link-2 c
$ tla mv src test
$ tla commit -s "move and rename a-link-2 file and src directory"
D/ src/.arch-ids
A/ test/.arch-ids
/> src test
=> src/.arch-ids/a-link-2.id .arch-ids/c.id
=> src/a-link-2 c
=> src/.arch-ids/=id test/.arch-ids/=id
=> src/.arch-ids/a-link.id test/.arch-ids/a-link.id
=> src/.arch-ids/b.id test/.arch-ids/b.id
* update pristine tree (tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-4 => tla--test--0--patch-5)
* committed tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0--patch-5
$ cd ..
converting tla repo to Mercurial
$ hg convert tla-repo tla-repo-hg
initializing destination tla-repo-hg repository
analyzing tree version tla@mercurial--convert/tla--test--0...
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
5 initial import
4 added a file, src and src/b (binary)
3 added link to a and modify a
2 added second link and modify b
1 file to link and link to file test
0 move and rename a-link-2 file and src directory
$ tla register-archive -d tla@mercurial--convert
$ glog()
> {
> hg log -G --template '{rev} "{desc|firstline}" files: {files}\n' "$@"
> }
show graph log
$ glog -R tla-repo-hg
o 5 "move and rename a-link-2 file and src directory" files: c src/a-link src/a-link-2 src/b test/a-link test/b
|
o 4 "file to link and link to file test" files: src/a-link-2 src/b
|
o 3 "added second link and modify b" files: src/a-link-2 src/b
|
o 2 "added link to a and modify a" files: a src/a-link
|
o 1 "added a file, src and src/b (binary)" files: a src/b
|
o 0 "initial import" files:
$ hg up -q -R tla-repo-hg
$ hg -R tla-repo-hg manifest --debug
c4072c4b72e1cabace081888efa148ee80ca3cbb 644 a
0201ac32a3a8e86e303dff60366382a54b48a72e 644 c
c0067ba5ff0b7c9a3eb17270839d04614c435623 644 @ test/a-link
375f4263d86feacdea7e3c27100abd1560f2a973 644 @ test/b