Re: Unexpected changes in unattended installer

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Jeroen Ooms <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the past year or so I have been using the following script to do
> an unattended install of miktex on appveyor:
> https://github.com/rwinlib/base/blob/b10d02e6da97f766e70ccd1ae2c59fc60aed316d/scripts/appveyor-tool.ps1#L186-L228
> . This script is based of the info from:
> https://miktex.org/announcement/miktex-setup-utility
>
> However as of 4 days ago this no longer works. The URL to
> miktexsetup-x64.zip no longer exists. It seems to have moved into a
> subdirectory windows-x64/miktexsetup-x64.zip. So I changed the URL,
> but then the script could no longer find 'mpm'. I suppose perhaps the
> location in disk of mpm.exe has changed.

Actually it looks like this miktexsetup.exe is completely broken. It
errors immediately with "MiKTeX encountered an internal error".

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