> I did it with a custom action, but that's admitting failure :)
That's exactly what I'm also trying to achieve. Can't believe one needs a
custom action for that, but it seems that way!
Whatever I tried so far, MSI never always does the right thing on
install/repair/major upgrade/uninstall.
-Mark
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Gesendet: Freitag, 4. April 2008 14:19
An: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: [WiX-users] How do I preserve a configuration file on a
majorupgrade?
I am doing a major upgrade of a service application.
I managed to preserve the service information by removing InstallServices
and DeleteServices during UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE and
OLDERVERSIONBEINGDETECTED. This has one drawback that I can't add a new
service to the application any more during a major upgrade. I can live with
that for now.
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<FindRelatedProducts Before="LaunchConditions" />
<RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallValidate" />
<InstallServices>NOT OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED</InstallServices>
<DeleteServices>(NOT OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED) AND (NOT
UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE)</DeleteServices>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
I have a configuration file config/Config.xml, that I managed to preserve by
copying a Config_Original.xml to Config.xml at clean install only (never
install Config.xml). I couldn't get this to work with CopyFile - it never
ran without a FileId or forced a file to be uninstalled otherwise. I did it
with a custom action, but that's admitting failure :)
<CustomAction Id="CopyConfigXml" Directory="config" ExeCommand='cmd.exe /Q
/C "copy Config_Original.xml Config.xml"' Return="check" Execute="deferred"
/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="CopyConfigXml" Before="StartServices">(NOT Installed) AND
(NOT OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED)</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
Question: how do I do the config.xml file part cleanly and maybe a better
way for the service part?
Thx
dB.
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