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> To: Koehne Kai <kai.koe...@theqtcompany.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Development] Setup CI service
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> On 27 January 2016 at 18:18, Koehne Kai <kai.koe...@theqtcompany.com
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>       >       >       > Hi Kai,
>       >       >       >
>       >       >       > I mean the official Qt offline installer (Linux)
> downloaded
>       > from
>       >       >       > https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.5/
>       >       >       >
>       >       >       > Before Qt 5.5, it could be run in command line
> environment
>       > and
>       >       > extract its
>       >       >       > content by " --dump-binary-data". But this options has
> been
>       >       > dropped.
>       >       >
>       >       >       It got moved to an extra executable called 'devtool'.  
> You
> can
>       > still
>       >       > use it
>       >       >       by getting the IFW itself, e.g. from
>       >       >       http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt-installer-
>       >       > framework/2.0.1/ ,
>       >       >       and launching devtool with the installer as an argument.
>       >       >
>       >       > But how can I install devtool in command line environment?
>       >
>       >       This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem indeed (that is, if 
> you
>       > really want to start with a completely clean slate. The devtools
> version
>       > doesn't have to necessarily match exactly the installer version).
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       > That is the exact problem. I think it need to have a command line
> installable
>       > ifw to get started . (e.g a PPA in Ubuntu)
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       >       >       Anyhow, also the installer itself can be scripted & 
> execute
>       >       > automatically.
>       >       >
>       >       > Any example?
>       >
>       >       http://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/qt-installer-framework-
>       > quitinstaller-example.html
>       >
>       >       (Note though that the Qt Account page isn't part of this
> example,
>       > since it's not part of the general IFW. But I guess you can just add
> another
>       > "Next" for this page ...)
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       > A bit confused. That is the instruction to build a installer or
> manipulate an
>       > existing installer?
> 
> 
>       Sorry, my fault. The example I meant was at
> 
>       https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/113141/
> 
>       But it never got integrated :( Still, it should work.
> 
>       Regards
> 
>       Kai
> 
> 
> 
> In fact, I think it should be on development mailing list becoz of the
> "chicken and egg" problem.
> 
> Anyway, I think your example just show how to pack custom installer , but
> not asking an existing installer (e.g official offline installer from qt.io
> <http://qt.io> ) to run. Am I correct?

You can pass a control script also to an existing installer, via command line.

./installer.exe --script myscript.js

Regards

Kai

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