Phil,
I did everything you said. I don't know what going on either. I found out
the hard way that I need to change the version of the file in order for the
minor upgrade to work. I even try to do vamus instead of vomus, but still
no luck.
I even wrote a program to retrieve the file version, just to make sure the
version of the files are different.
The weird part is, nothing happens, no errors during an upgrade. Each MSI
work indepenently of each other, but I can't upgrade from one version to the
next.
Aaron
On 1/3/07, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can't tell what's actually going on with those versions either.
Changing file versions is a requirement for a minor upgrade to be useful, so
I wonder what Aaron did. You're supposed to update versions of files that
have changed, build an MSI file with a new PackageCode but the same
ProductCode (and an incremented ProductVersion usually) and then install
with:
msiexec /i <path to msi> REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus
where that 'o' is "replace older versions with newer versions of files".
So if you don't change file versions there won't be any code files updated.
Phil Wilson
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[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 tried logging the upgrade process, the command line option I use
is /lv* (which is just about everything).
Then look at two things:
1. The InstallValidate action - this should show what the installer is
planning to do to each component.
2. Then look for the actual InstallFiles action. It should show what the
installer is doing to each file - it may say why it won't change a file.
The only other thing is do all of your components have a GUID? I've seen
something like this when I forgot them.
Michael
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*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 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
tried to play with the REINSTALLMODE, and changing the version number on my
assemblies. Nothing seems to work. I also noticed after an upgrade (didn't
actually work), uninstalling the application doesn't actually do anything.
It uninstalls without any errors, but no files are actually removed from the
disk.
I'm not sure what information I need to provide here, since I'm not
getting any error messages. I basically followed the instructions in the
WiX tutorial lesson 4 ( http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php).
Thanx,
Aaron
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