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Windows 7 binaries? #166

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jrmuizel opened this issue Sep 21, 2022 · 5 comments
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Windows 7 binaries? #166

jrmuizel opened this issue Sep 21, 2022 · 5 comments

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@jrmuizel
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Is it possible to include older versions of Windows in the index?

@m417z
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m417z commented Sep 21, 2022

It should be possible as long as the updates can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and it seems that at least some of the Windows 7 updates are available, even though Windows 7 is EOL for more than 2 years. Personally, I don't need Windows 7 binaries, and I think most people don't. Actually, I've been thinking about adding ARM64 Win10 and Win11 to Winbindex, which I think will be useful to more people.

May I ask what's your use case? Security-related?

As you understand, I'm not very excited about indexing Windows 7 binaries, but I might change my mind if there's enough interest from more than a couple of people. Meanwhile, you can grab the scripts in the data folder and try to adjust them for Windows 7.

@jrmuizel
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My use case is checking for and confirming behaviour changes/bugs between Windows versions. I don't have a specific need at the moment, but I'll try adjusting the scripts when I do.

@nowtilous
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i'd also like to have here windows 7 binaries (and 8/8.1) if possible

@nutterthanos
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nutterthanos commented Aug 3, 2023

It should be possible as long as the updates can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and it seems that at least some of the Windows 7 updates are available, even though Windows 7 is EOL for more than 2 years. Personally, I don't need Windows 7 binaries, and I think most people don't. Actually, I've been thinking about adding ARM64 Win10 and Win11 to Winbindex, which I think will be useful to more people.

May I ask what's your use case? Security-related?

As you understand, I'm not very excited about indexing Windows 7 binaries, but I might change my mind if there's enough interest from more than a couple of people. Meanwhile, you can grab the scripts in the data folder and try to adjust them for Windows 7.

i found an way to find those updates that are not on microsoft update catalog
or i just give an entire list of update urls
well not all sadly but more than on there anyway

@m417z
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m417z commented Aug 4, 2023

@nutterthanos if you want to work on it, the main things you need to change are these files:
upd01_get_list_of_updates.py
upd02_get_manifests_from_updates.py
Check out the flow graph in the data folder as well.

For an example of a different data source, you can check out winbindex-data-insider.

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