Hi,
I've stumbled across a situation that has me confused and questioning my
understanding of the windows installer. I've currently created a patch for
a company product, the first patch we're releasing for it. The patch seems
to work fine however when I attempt to uninstall the patch it removes almost
all of the binary files accompanying our product making it unusable after
the patch is installed. Reinstalling the patch naturally fixes the problem.
The patch is installed with an EXE wrapper which runs the following command:
msiexec /p "[path ...]\Patch.msp" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE="emus" /L*v
"[path ...]\patch.log"
I've also tried REINSTALLMODE="omus" with similar results.
My attempts to uninstall the patch have been made both through the control
panel and the command line with the command:
msiexec /uninstall {patch-guid} /package {product-guid} /passive /L*v
C:\uninstall.log
Both have the same result, the logging from command line shows files are
being removed but I haven't found any information suggesting why this is
being done. I strongly suspect some of the files being removed are not even
being modified by the patches initial install. If anyone has any insight or
suggestions they would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Jim.
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