Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Aaron Feng
D] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Feng *Sent:* Thursday, January 04, 2007 07:47 *To:* Bob Arnson; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything Bob, I'm having a lot of problems trying to do minor upgrade. Partly the MSI is automated using a custom in h

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Rob Mensching
creating their Components. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Feng Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 07:47 To: Bob Arnson; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything Bob, I'm having a lot of problems trying to do

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Rob Mensching
You might check out: http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/01/04/Doing-a-small-update-or-minor-upgrade-in-MSI-Use.aspx for more information.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson MSI (s) (80:D4) [09:18:15:862]: Feature: Client; Installed: Advertise; Request: Reinstall; Action:

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Wilson, Phil
f Bob Arnson Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:41 AM To: Aaron Feng Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything Aaron Feng wrote: > Just for my understanding, what does Featuring marked as advertised mean? The MSI SDK talks about it starting at http

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Aaron Feng
Bob, I'm having a lot of problems trying to do minor upgrade. Partly the MSI is automated using a custom in house tool I wrote, so I have less control over it. I might just have to do a major upgrade every time. Is there any side effect by doing so? Thanx, Aaron On 1/4/07, Bob Arnson <[EMAI

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Bob Arnson
Aaron Feng wrote: > Just for my understanding, what does Featuring marked as advertised mean? The MSI SDK talks about it starting at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367548.aspx. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - T

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Aaron Feng
Bob, Just for my understanding, what does Featuring marked as advertised mean? Thanx, Aaron On 1/4/07, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Feng wrote: > MSI (s) (80:D4) [09:18:15:862]: Feature: Client; Installed: > Advertise; Request: Reinstall; Action: Reinstall This indicates

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Bob Arnson
Aaron Feng wrote: > MSI (s) (80:D4) [09:18:15:862]: Feature: Client; Installed: > Advertise; Request: Reinstall; Action: Reinstall This indicates what is probably the root of the problem. Features marked as advertised aren't actually installed on the machine so an upgrade doesn't do anythin

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-04 Thread Aaron Feng
Thanks Bob, I will provide the information below. Hopefully someone can figure it out. All the information I provided below are related to the upgrade using the MSI. I installed the first version by simply clicking on the "older" MSI. The MSI I'm trying to do a minor upgrade with has a differen

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Aaron Feng wrote: > I'm not sure what information I need to provide here, since I'm not > getting any error messages. General info: The command lines you're using to install and upgrade. Excerpts from verbose logs, especially around InstallValidate (as Michael points out). -- sig://boB http

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-03 Thread Aaron Feng
d. Phil Wilson -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Michael Osmond *Sent:* Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:57 PM *To:* Aaron Feng; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything Aaron, Have you tri

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-03 Thread Aaron Feng
is when I forgot them. Michael -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Feng *Sent:* Thursday, 4 January 2007 8:26 AM *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything I'm having trouble d

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-03 Thread Wilson, Phil
27;t be any code files updated. Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Osmond Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:57 PM To: Aaron Feng; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything Aaron, Have you t

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-03 Thread Michael Osmond
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Feng Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2007 8:26 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything I'm having trouble doing a minor upgrade for an existing MSI. The new upgrading MSI run without errors, h

[WiX-users] Upgrading not doing anything

2007-01-03 Thread Aaron Feng
I'm having trouble doing a minor upgrade for an existing MSI. The new upgrading MSI run without errors, however, it does nothing. I checked the log file during an upgrade, nothing seems particularly interesting. If I run the new MSI by itself (installing in this case), it works just fine. I tr