I had a question about whether a feature is supported in WiX or not. I
haven't seen any WiX documentation that really answers my question.
Basically I was curious as to how patches could be installed and supersede
each other based on the base used to create the patch.
For example if I have Prod
I had a question about whether a feature is supported and haven't seen any
WiX documentation that really answers my question. Basically I was curious
as to how patches could be installed and supersede each other based on the
base used to create the patch.
For example if I have Product v1.0.3 dir
.
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> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM, XorPtr wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey! I think I was able to finally solve this issue which also related so
>> other issues with alternate patching not working. The reason for all the
>> trouble seemed to be the use of RegistryKey
t; There's also a ComponentSearch element that may be helpful as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:59 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [W
:
To fix the problem I had to remove the registrykey and set the shortcut as
advertised as follows:
In case anyone else out there has a similar issue, after making this change
everything worked fine!
XorPtr wrote:
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> This is actually another cry for help on
d on whether or
> not your product is installed.
>
> There's also a ComponentSearch element that may be helpful as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:59 AM
; Is WIXUI_INSTALLDIR being set/defined in maintenance mode?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:28 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patchi
; Tom
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> -----Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:07 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories
>
>
> Hey Tom,
>
> I managed to ge
in
> the past.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:50 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directorie
me
> property is getting set by the UI that isn't being re-set during
> patch/repair/uninstall.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:59 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sou
patch with Orca can point out things that are buried in a
> verbose log like removing a component from a feature during a patch etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:00 P
All of the components are listed as:
Installed: Local; Request: Local; Action: Local.
Blair-2 wrote:
>
> What does the log say about the component statuses?
>
> -Original Message-----
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009
; Could you share a log that shows it not working in that circumstance?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:55 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching proble
files performing either small updates or minor
> upgrades? If so, the patch application won't let you patch anywhere other
> than the currently installed location since the keypath of the components
> can't be changed without a major upgrade.
>
> -Original Message-
&g
This is actually another cry for help on what's probably a related issue with
installing a patch when users install to an alternate directory. The
original issue was that when patching our product the patch only works when
the user installs to the default directory, if they choose their own the
p
updates or minor
> upgrades? If so, the patch application won't let you patch anywhere other
> than the currently installed location since the keypath of the components
> can't be changed without a major upgrade.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: XorPtr [mailto:r
I ended up figuring this out on my own, it looks like the installer became
corrupted somehow so rebuilding the patch from scratch corrected the issue.
Not sure what caused the corruption though.
Big Jim.
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I've been having an issue with my WiX patch which I haven't been able to find
any information for. The company I work for wants to give users the freedom
to install our product in a directory of their choice. We've given the
installer a default directory which can be changed at install time by t
irst place.
XorPtr wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've stumbled across a situation that has me confused and questioning my
> understanding of the windows installer. I've currently created a patch
> for a company product, the first patch we're releasing for it. The patch
>
Hi,
I've stumbled across a situation that has me confused and questioning my
understanding of the windows installer. I've currently created a patch for
a company product, the first patch we're releasing for it. The patch seems
to work fine however when I attempt to uninstall the patch it remove
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