Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Mensching
pher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rob Mensching > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Sent: T

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Your msi should be caches on the users machine in c:\windows\installer iirc but it will have an odd name. Check whether you can find it. When it is cached if think all the binaries are removed so that it is only the install logic, if you are doing anything that runs one of the binaries on uninst

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Painter
e From: Rob Mensching To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 2:59:11 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI Very true. That's why Burn caches the MSI for you. Minimizing source prompts is good as well..

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Rob Mensching
ndher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:01 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI > > Is the upgrade shipped as an MSI or an MSP? I've seen that happ

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Wilson, Phil
ng on. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:01 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI Is the upgrade shipped as an MSI or an

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Rob Mensching
The event viewer might have a notification what Component requires source. If not, then a verbose log file will definitely show it. That'll tell you quickly what is th eissue. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Pally Sandher wrote: > Is the upgrade shipped as an MSI or an MSP? I've seen that happen

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Pally Sandher
Is the upgrade shipped as an MSI or an MSP? I've seen that happen with MSP's when doing stuff like deleting files from the new version without authoring an appropriate RemoveFile. If it's an MSI are you using a bootstrapper to deploy it or just the raw MSI? Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment