The description of this is a Small Update. Typically when I hear of someone
not wanting to write to the registry during an upgrade it is because they are
having negative side effects from the fact that properties don't persist in the
cached MSI and they are trying to work around the symptom instead of addresing
the cause.
Rennie, am I guessing your situation correctly? Are you using [FOO] in the
Registry table and seeing some default or null value get written to the
registry during an upgrade instead of the value that was written during the
initial installation?
If so, generally you want to use an AppSearch to retrieve the value of FOO
from the registry so that if the component reinstalls, it'll be written back
out correctly to the registry.
Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
I havent 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 wouldnt 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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