I'm using salt-stack to manage the minion in Windows.
I'm wondering that how to fill in install_flags field in salt-stack when installing applications in Windows?
Here is the document of salt-stack.
http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/windows-package-manager.html
You may see that: for installation, Firefox gets -ms and 7zip gets /q as their own install_flags.
Is there a rule to follow? i.e. "If I want to install apache-tomcat, what's the install_flags to fill in?"
Is there someone knows the secret? Thanks in advance.
I'm the author of Salt Windows package manager. Those install_flags refer to the silent install options that your application installer provides. Sometimes passing a /? or /h to the installer at the command line will tell you what options are available.
Also, the wpkg project has a fantastic wiki documenting many of the silent installer switches here: http://wpkg.org/Category:Silent_Installers
A quick Google search revealed this doc as well: http://documentation.softwareag.com/webmethods/wmsuites/wmsuite8_ga/System_Management_Hub/install/tomcat_windows_install.htm#d0e2149