I moved REP to After InstallFinalize and now it seems I can execute my rollback action before Remove Files. However I need the REP to be After InstallInitialize . Is there any way to make the rollback action work before RemoveFiles while keeping REP After InstallInitialize?
achandrapano wrote: > > REP is right after InstallInitialize. I can't put this Rollback action in > the older MSI. Here is the reason why. I am installing drivers using > custom actions. When installing the newer version as part of the upgrade, > say something goes wrong with the driver installation. At this point a > rollback is initiated and I need the drivers to rollback to the version > before the upgrade even started. The method I am using for driver > installation doesn't support rollback, so the only thing I can do is > re-install the older version. However I need an INF file that is part of > the original installation (before starting installation process). Where > would I put my rollback action to be able to access this pre-existing INF > file? > > > Richard-45 wrote: >> >> >> In article >> <048288cf0239f24a8c2299e69f020b0501293...@exchange.panologic.com>, >> "Ashwin Chandra" <achan...@panologic.com> writes: >> >>> I am trying to perform a rollback custom action when an upgrade install >>> fails. However, I require the original files on the system (before the >>> installer updates them) to execute this rollback custom action. >>> [...] >> >> RemoveExistingProducts is the standard action that removes previous >> versions of the application before installing the current one. >> >> Where do you have REP sequenced in your upgrade? >> >> It sounds to me like your rollback action should be in the MSI of the >> old version being upgraded rather than in the MSI of the new version. >> You can do this by applying a patch to the existing version before >> upgrading, using a bootstrapper. >> >> I've done these sorts of things where a failed upgrade has to be >> patched up in order for the manual uninstall of the previous version >> or the next upgrade attempt to succeed. I've compensated for buggy >> prior versions both by patching the previous version before updating >> and by putting special error handling code in the bootstrapper that >> executed the upgrade. It feels a little bit ugly, but it works. As >> for when you do one and not the other, well, I patched stuff in the >> existing product MSI when I needed to do adjust the behavior of >> something that was essentially in the middle of the install >> transaction for the previous version. For cleaning up after a failed >> upgrade, I put that in the bootstrapper since it didn't involve >> applying a patch to the previous version (risky for us at the time) >> and we already required a bootstrapper anyway. >> -- >> "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for >> download >> <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> >> >> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your >> production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks >> to >> Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK >> i700 >> Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image >> processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Rollback-Custom-Action-during-Upgrade-tp2866142p2866471.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
