Script to get AppsAndFeaturesEntries!

[jedieaston]

Happy holidays all! 🎅

I made a little present for everybody: a script that will fill AppsAndFeaturesEntries for all of the installer entries in a manifest. I haven't tested it a bunch yet, but I figured it was important to get something out there now that there's functionality in the client depending on it (microsoft/winget-cli#1796 among others).

The script executes each installer entry in a Sandbox, using winget install's newish command line arguments to force the matching algorithm down a certain path. This means you need a build of winget that is newer than the one in releases to make this work. Fear not, I thought of that (I built it locally, and VS includes a handy PowerShell script to trust the certificate. Works great in a sandbox.)

This script has a lot more work that needs to be done to it to make it work in 99% of cases instead of 80% or so, but it will get us started.

I've attached a zip file with the script and wingetdev build. To use it, run .\Add-ARPEntries.ps1 <path to manifest you want to add values to> (and make sure you have Windows Sandbox enabled). I'll probably make a repo (or at least a gist) for this eventually.

generatearp.zip

Edit (1/3): Fixed incompatibility with PowerShell 7.
Edit (1/10): Fixed a path whoopsie.

[vedantmgoyal9]

I made a little present for everybody

Developers have best gifts to give 😂

[OfficialEsco]

Soooo, what if i don't use Hyper-V? 🤔
Is there no easy way to do this without Sandbox? Would be amazing for YamlCreate, validation pipeline and Wingetcreate

edit:
I'm guessing this kinda works like PRTest or Levvies PR test script, so would it add this for VC++2015-2019x64?

AppsAndFeaturesEntries:
  - DisplayName: Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 X64 Additional Runtime - 14.29.30135
    Publisher:  Microsoft Corporation
    DisplayVersion: 14.29.30135
    ProductCode: '{34DB4181-0770-4B5A-B561-68758A077B0F}'
  - DisplayName: Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 X64 Minimum Runtime - 14.29.30135
    Publisher:  Microsoft Corporation
    DisplayVersion: 14.29.30135
    ProductCode: '{40118CD9-A805-400C-864E-041A5B5C01B0}'
  - DisplayName: Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64) - 14.29.30135
    Publisher:  Microsoft Corporation
    DisplayVersion: 14.29.30135.0
    ProductCode: '{fa7f6d52-f85e-48ef-8f56-a37268aa5772}'

[jedieaston]

You could do it via Docker for Windows containers. I'm going to work on doing that next, GH Actions runners can run Windows Docker containers so we could do it that way.

Also, that output is pretty much right. Here's what the script gives me:

AppsAndFeaturesEntries:
  - DisplayName: Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 X64 Additional Runtime - 14.29.30135
    DisplayVersion: 14.29.30135
    Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
    ProductCode: '{34DB4181-0770-4B5A-B561-68758A077B0F}'
  - DisplayName: Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 X64 Minimum Runtime - 14.29.30135
    DisplayVersion: 14.29.30135
    Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
    ProductCode: '{40118CD9-A805-400C-864E-041A5B5C01B0}'
  - DisplayName: Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64) - 14.29.30135
    DisplayVersion: 14.29.30135.0
    Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
    ProductCode: '{fa7f6d52-f85e-48ef-8f56-a37268aa5772}'

[vedantmgoyal9]

You could do it via Docker for Windows containers. I'm going to work on doing that next, GH Actions runners can run Windows Docker containers so we could do it that way.
[...]

Does that mean I can use it for automation? 🎉🎉

[OfficialEsco]

Well, my first test went south 🤔

   ~\Downloads\generatearp                                                                             13:22:15 
❯ .\Add-ARPEntries.ps1 -ManifestPath C:\Users\User\GitHub\winget-pkgs\manifests\o\Oracle\MySQL\8.0.27
Get-Content: C:\Users\User\Downloads\generatearp\Add-ARPEntries.ps1:29
Line |
  29 |          $manifest = Get-Content ($manifestFolder + "\" + $i) | Conver …
     |                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Cannot find path
     | 'C:\Users\User\GitHub\winget-pkgs\manifests\o\Oracle\MySQL\8.0.27\C:\Users\User\GitHub\winget-pkgs\manifests\o\Oracle\MySQL\8.0.27\Oracle.MySQL.installer.yaml' because it does not exist.

   ~\Downloads\generatearp                                                                             13:22:25 
❯ .\Add-ARPEntries.ps1

cmdlet Add-ARPEntries.ps1 at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
(Type !? for Help.)
ManifestPath: C:\Users\User\GitHub\winget-pkgs\manifests\o\Oracle\MySQL\8.0.27
Get-Content: C:\Users\User\Downloads\generatearp\Add-ARPEntries.ps1:29
Line |
  29 |          $manifest = Get-Content ($manifestFolder + "\" + $i) | Conver …
     |                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Cannot find path
     | 'C:\Users\User\GitHub\winget-pkgs\manifests\o\Oracle\MySQL\8.0.27\C:\Users\User\GitHub\winget-pkgs\manifests\o\Oracle\MySQL\8.0.27\Oracle.MySQL.installer.yaml' because it does not exist.

[jedieaston]

The WinGetDev folder is in the same place as the script, right? It looks like somehow wingetdev isn't being installed, I'll investigate...

[OfficialEsco]

Yuuurp, extracted the folder to the downloads folder and ran Add-ARPEntries.ps1 from the generatearp folder 🤷‍♂️

[jedieaston]

Can you do an ls in the generatearp folder and post it?

Edit: nevermind, I see the problem. I assumed the script was being ran from the same folder in which the package was, which it isn't in your case. Let me fix that...

[jedieaston]

The zip file has been updated with a patched version. It should work for you now?

[OfficialEsco]

No access to a PC with Hyper-V enabled for a while, so ill take your word for it that it works 👀