Re: [WiX-users] Patching Problem

[Vitaly Dolya]

I rather agree with you, considering REINSTALLMODE parameter ("amus" - Force all files to be reinstalled, regardless of checksum or version.) it seems logical, that files must be updated. Different behavior, that depends on WholeFilesOnly parameter looks more confusing to me. Nevertheless IMO it is a windows installer issue, but not wix one. What version of MSI installed on your machine? Brower, Jason wrote: When you run msiexec for patches, you have the REINSTALLMODE options to tell windows what to do (i.e. reinstall everything, version > current version, version >= current version, only missing, etc).   To make things more interesting, I have been using WholeFilesOnly=”yes” for the PatchCreation element in the wxs file.  When I change this flag to no, the files get patched just fine.  This technically solves the problem, but I am still confused as to why…

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