Rob and Christopher, thanks.
Rob, you say "played games like this". You seem to be implying I'm doing
something in a non-standard or non-optimal way? If so, please let me
know what a more standard way would be to do this.
The reason I do not want to change the registry entries is that these
registry entries are used by the application to store changes in the
configuration. For example, one registry entry is used to indicate the
language to be used by the running application. It is initialized to
Danish or English at install time, depending on Windows locale info or a
value entered via the UI. But later, the user may change his/her mind
and specify a different language. An install of a minor upgrade should
preserve the new value rather than re-initialize it, otherwise the users
will get upset since they have to re-change the language once again.
Maybe this is poor application design? The application should accept
installation values in one set of registry entries and save running
values elsewhere?
But if I do it that way, how should one tell the application that you
really do want it to change the values to new installation values when
that is advantageous, for example a re-install to force a change to
Swedish when that language support is added and most of the users at
this site are Swedish?
Rennie
________________________________
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10. juni 2007 20:07
To: Rob Mensching; Rennie Petersen;
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Avoiding registry entries being
modified with REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vos
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:
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
________________________________
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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