hello, im attempting tro build a windows msi for launcher and am having issues with the launcher and osquery version flag, ideally i need to be able to specify either a local path or a different ip

You configure what server it connects to with the

hostname

flag

i thought hostname was to set the fleet server hostname not where to download the osquery/launcher stuff from

By default, launcher uses kolide’s notary server and download server. Of you want to change those, you can look at:

-mirror_url                  The mirror server for autoupdates
  -notary_prefix               The prefix for Notary path that contains the collections
  -notary_url                  The Notary update server

oh ok, ill have to try that but i think the help states that osquery_version can use a file path

Oh, yes, I wrote it down! If you specify a file path in

osquery_version

or

launcher_version

it should build that into the resultant binary. But you will probably still havbe the autoupdate stuff enabled.

so for the time being i was trying to build an msi without autoupdate for testing, hence wanting to pull from a filepath, ideally it would pull from our artifactory server

Initial package build time isn’t the same as runtime update sources.

so are those not for the inital building of an msi?

Skimming things: 1. If you set

update_channel

to empty string, which might be the default, it will disable the runtime update functionality. 2. package build time uses the

_version

options. And either they specify the download channel, or a FS path.

so itll use the _version to intially populate the msi?

Yes, pretty sure.

cause my issue is that when i specify

osquery_version

with a filepath, not sure about the others, it takes the value and puts it as part of the url for the normal download

What are you doing, exactly?

the goal or the commands?

The command line

uh well i can give an approx, cant copy and paste but ill give it a shot one sec

You’re running this from a windows box? in a cmd.exe or powershell?

cmd

Though… I bet I can guess. The underlying functionality here is https://github.com/kolide/launcher/blob/a8761d72ed848d13bd40d6ec40b88c1662ffe445/pkg/packaging/packaging.go#L301-L302 which looks for a string starting with

./

to decide if it’s local. That’s probaby never true in cmd.

yeah i have paths like C:\Users\user\Desktop\windows\osqueryd

Yeah. pretty sure that’s it then. The logic isn’t going to work there.

yeah its weird in my mind a full path is usually better so thats why it threw me off i guess

https://github.com/kolide/launcher/blob/a8761d72ed848d13bd40d6ec40b88c1662ffe445/pkg/packaging/packaging.go#L301-L302 is the code in question

ok i think that got further, but i need to install wix\heat, thanks for the help

It expects wix on a fairly specific path.

yeah i didnt realize i had to install it