I haven't played games like this with the Windows Installer but my
understanding is that if the Component believes it needs to be repaired (the
KeyPath is being updated) then the whole Component gets written.
You might (although I wouldn't really recommend it) be able to condition the
registry related actions.
Why do you need to not have registry stuff written?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rennie Petersen
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 3:37 AM
To: Rennie Petersen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Avoiding registry entries being modified with
REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vos
No answers. :-(
Of course, this is not WiX specific, but I'm wondering if someone could help me
anyway.
To elaborate, the situation is that in my MSI I have not written any <Upgrade
element, nor any <RemoveExistingProducts element.
The <Product element contains the same Version= tag (Version="4.1.1.0") and the
same UpgradeCode=guid tag as used when the prior install was done.
On the msiexec.exe command line I specify REINSTALL=ALL and REINSTALLMODE=vos.
I'm not specifying REINSTALLMODE=vomus because I do not want the registry
entries to be modified.
But the registry entries are being modified anyway.
Any idea of how I can prevent this?
Thanks.
Rennie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rennie Petersen
Sent: 6. juni 2007 19:18
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Avoiding registry entries being modified withREINSTALL=ALL
REINSTALLMODE=vos
I'm doing a reinstall, but I don't want the existing registry entries to be
modified.
So instead of specifying REINSTALLMODE=vomus I specify REINSTALLMODE=vos.
But the registry entries still get reset to the values in my MSI.
Is it possible to avoid this?
Thanks.
Rennie
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