Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches

2013-09-08 Thread Blair Murri
. You could run into cases of unexpected reinstall of MSIs that the user had previously uninstalled, etc. > From: gef...@microsoft.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:04:49 +0000 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches > > 1. I

Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches

2013-09-05 Thread George Fleming
--Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 1:13 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches Ship the patch in a Bundle. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Geor

Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Mensching
Ship the patch in a Bundle. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, George Fleming wrote: > I have two applications, a MSI and a bootstrapper/UI that invokes the MSI. > To prevent double ARP entries, we set the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property in > the bootstrapper . > > This works fine, except when we app

[WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches

2013-09-04 Thread George Fleming
I have two applications, a MSI and a bootstrapper/UI that invokes the MSI. To prevent double ARP entries, we set the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property in the bootstrapper . This works fine, except when we apply a patch. Because the MSI is blocked, so is its patch. We cannot see it, and therefore c