Uninstaller signing

pkonduru · 12th April 2016, 16:50

I know this topic has been discussed a lot and I have gone through all of them. I wanted to share something that I did and works for me, but wanted to know if this will have any repercussions.
--Installed my product on local machine.
--Grabbed the uninst.exe , signed it through an external process.
--I add the uninst.exe as a file now in the installer instead of the "write installer".

I did a few regressions and I don't see any problems with this yet. I am assuming if my uninstall code changes, I have to repeat the above?

Anders · 12th April 2016, 17:06

This is the same thing as some of the scripts that do !system '"${nsisdir}\makensis" -Dgenuninst "${__FILE__}"' + !system 'generateuninst.exe' on themselves, just more manual work on your part but it is completely OK to do it this way...

pkonduru · 12th April 2016, 18:13

Thanks Anders .
I don't think the uninstall code will ever change for my installer, so should be good i guess.

12th April 2016, 16:50	#1
pkonduru Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 62	Uninstaller signing I know this topic has been discussed a lot and I have gone through all of them. I wanted to share something that I did and works for me, but wanted to know if this will have any repercussions. --Installed my product on local machine. --Grabbed the uninst.exe , signed it through an external process. --I add the uninst.exe as a file now in the installer instead of the "write installer". I did a few regressions and I don't see any problems with this yet. I am assuming if my uninstall code changes, I have to repeat the above?

12th April 2016, 17:06	#2
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12th April 2016, 18:13	#3
pkonduru Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 62	Thanks Anders . I don't think the uninstall code will ever change for my installer, so should be good i guess.