[REVIEW-3-5][PUSHED] fdo#47805 rework handling of 64-bit registry entries

[Andras Timar]

2012/6/5 Andras Timar <timar74 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> This is a big patch, but I think the logic is simple. It makes Windows
> shell extensions work out of the box on 64-bit Windows. Instead of a
> (non-working) hack with Reg64 table and 4 registry manipulating custom
> actions, we use normal MSI actions to set the appropriate registry
> keys during install and remove them during uninstall.
>
> On the other hand, the resulting MSI database fails the ICE80 test,
> because it associates a 64-bit registry item to a 32-bit directory
> (WTF?), and installs 64-bit elements from a 32-bit installer. But in
> real life it seems to be OK, installer does what it has to do (and
> what I wanted). I tested it on Windows 7 32/64 bit, and Windows 2008
> Server R2.
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6d9be05a6fb251ed0cbcbcefd55ed174b1e8e39d
>
> Please let me know, if you want this in libreoffice-3-5. I did not
> try, maybe it does not apply cleanly, but I can backport.
>

Fridrich approved it on irc. Pushed the backported patch to libreoffice-3-5.

Andras