Why doesn't RemoveFile work? Did you set On="install"?
-Brian Simoneau
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew
Janulewicz
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:08 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Clear out directory before install?
I realize this is a certifiable Bad Thing(tm), but it's a
situation I haven't much control over. Here's what's going on.
Deployment crew deploys website or application .msi's to one set
of our production servers.
Instead of using the .msi's on all our redundant servers, they
xcopy it over to multiple other servers.
Next month, deployment crew does the same thing except that they
start on a different server, one of the xcopy servers. So the new .msi
does not overwrite anything on that server. Then they xcopy it to the
original server and regress everything back to where it was last month.
Everyone spends half a day trying to figure it out before anyone
asks CM about the installers. Problem is then discovered in about 10
seconds.
CM gets blamed for having bad installers.
I've suggested they 'use the installers correctly' but
apparently this is too difficult.
There is no 'extra stuff' in any of the directories, so if I
could wipe them out completely before the .msi starts <InstallFile ...>
it would solve this 'problem'.
Essentially I'm looking for a way to delete items that are not
in the file table in an installer prior to installing. I've tried
<RemoveFile ... /> but it doesn't seem to work in the way I would like
it to. Or else I'm not doing it right. Any ideas?
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Matthew Janulewicz
SCM Engineer
Green Dot Corporation
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