Fair points all, though a major upgrade does force things on your
installation that maybe you don't want - in particular it causes issues for
patches. But maybe that's not an issue right now.
For the version lying, that might have been the issue I had with it - it was
a long time ago and I think I ended up getting the dev to change the file
version.
On 12/12/06, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My inclination would be to do a major upgrade each time, sequencing
RemoveExistingProducts to uninstall the old app first then install the
updated one.
The issue with REINSTALLMODE is that it applies to every file in the
product, and I'm assuming you don't want to use (say) REINSTALLMODE=vamus to
force *every* file to replaced no matter what.
A companion file would work but yes it's tedious. It might in fact be
*less* tedious if you used Visual Studio to open up the code files and add
an appropriate version. Or you could automate this by copying/inserting a
resource/version from a file with the "right" version using the resource
APIs.
Version lying has the issue that the version you install on the system is
not the same as the version in the MSI's File table, and I believe the MSI
team has advised against it for this reason - the product could be treated
as broken because of that mismatch and a repair will never be able to
correct it.
Phil Wilson
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*Subject:* [WiX-users] Fwd: How can I force files to be overwritten?
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From: John Ludlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Dec 11, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How can I force files to be overwritten?
To: Scott Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You need to look into the REINSTALLMODE property
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/reinstallmode.asp
). This property controlls how MSI interprets the versioning rules.
I believe another way is to set the file version to something very high,
so it will be overwritten in any situation. (This isknown as "version lying"
since you're essentially lying about the file version). I think you can use
the DefaultVersion attribute for this. However, I've never got this
working very welll...
On 12/11/06, Scott Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> I have several files from a third party that I can not control the
> version information in. It may be that the version information is set to
> 1.0.0.0 for different versions of the same file, some files have no
> version info at all. I want to be sure that the latest file gets installed
> even if the previous version is already in place. This doesn't seem to be
> the case currently, which results in a mix between version A and version B
> of this framework. Obviously that causes a problem. Is there an easy way
> to get the MSI to do the right thing? My first guess is that I might be
> able to use the CompanionFile attribute.. but that is going to be a very
> tedious thing to set up. I'm not even sure if CompanionFile can refer to
> files in other components, as it isn't mentioned in the WiX docs.
>
> Scott
>
>
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