Re: [WiX-users] Re moveExistingProducts and Duplicate GUIDs

2008-06-04 Thread tsollas
tsollas wrote: > > Property="RestoreLogDirectoryBackup" ExeCommand="/c if not exist > "[service.dir]logs" ren "[service.dir]logs-backup" > "logs"" > Execute="deferred" Return="ignore"/&g

[WiX-users] Re moveExistingProducts and Duplicate GUIDs

2008-06-04 Thread tsollas
I have an out-in-the-wild install that has a duplicate for two components. The first component is a collection of files, the second component is a CreateFolder (with a util:Permissions). In the current installer, I've corrected the dupe by creating a new guid for the CreateFolder component. The

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-06-02 Thread tsollas
Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > See > http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/05/16/make-sure-features-are-always-enabled-so-they-can-be-removed/. > > Aha, that makes complete sense, and once I added "OR REMOVE" to the feature condition, it's working beautifully now. Thanks Bob and chrpai for your help...

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-31 Thread tsollas
chrpai wrote: > > Do you have any feature conditions? A quick examination and only this > jumped out at me: > > First Uninstall: > > MSI (s) (64:30) [12:09:18:771]: Feature: Service.Config.Upgrade.Feature; > Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null > MSI (s) (64:30) [12:09

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-31 Thread tsollas
chrpai wrote: > > If you zip and attach the logs I could take a look at it for you. > http://www.nabble.com/file/p17576836/logs.zip logs.zip Done, thanks a ton for looking at this. There's 5 logs, a clean install/uninstall, and then an upgrade install, and the two uninstalls afterwards. --

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread tsollas
chrpai wrote: > > The logfile would tell you what's happening. > I was looking for something a little more specific, as the MSI log file output is cryptic, at best. I did find in the log that the RemoveExistingProducts task is actually running, so given that, it does not appear to be an ALLUSE

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread tsollas
chrpai wrote: > > Sounds like an ALLUSERS problem. Basically the first install was either > per-user or per-machine and the second one was the other. > FindReleated/RemoveExisting only processes the same type so you ended up > with two installed products. One registered for AllUsers and one

[WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread tsollas
I'm working on doing a major upgrade for a Wix install. Both the original and version I'm upgrading to are Wix built installs. When the install runs, I'm able to detect that an upgrade is in process, and the install procedes normally. The Add/Remove Programs list shows just the new version. So,