The Microsoft VC++ bootstrappers (vcredist*_x86.exe) ignore /norestart
and trigger immediate Windows reboots when CRT DLLs are in use, which
in practice is always. We saw this break a live Standard PC imaging
run (installlog showed the manual shutdown -a sequence between runs).
Fix follows the existing 2008 pattern: extract the inner MSIs from
each Burn bundle, run them via msiexec with REBOOT=ReallySuppress
(a hard Windows Installer property the bootstrapper can't override),
and treat exit 3010 as success. Files are now staged per-version
under dependencies/vcredist/<version>/ because each MSI's Media table
hardcodes its CAB filename, so the pairs would otherwise collide.
preinstall.json: 4 EXE entries replaced with 8 MSI entries (Min+Add
for 2012/2013/2022 because each version's Burn bundle ships them
as separate MSIs). 2008 also moved into the same vcredist/2008/
subdir for consistency. ProductCodes verified against the existing
detection paths (the previous "bootstrapper" GUIDs were actually
the Min runtime GUIDs inherited up the chain).
sync-preinstall.sh: now tarballs the dependencies/vcredist/ subtree
to preserve directory structure across the scp+sudo-cp boundary,
flat installers (UDC, Oracle) still copied individually, and the
remote install script now removes the legacy flat vc_red.msi/cab
plus the obsolete vcredist*_x86.exe bootstrappers on every sync.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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