The registry removal is probably occurring in the package being removed. The upgrading package's properties are not all passed to the packages being removed.
The package being removed is given a property "UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE" which is the product code of the upgrading package. If you add "AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE" to your "REMOVE"-related condition you should achieve what you are trying to do (not that it won't help with packages already released, you will just have to recreate those entries when upgrading already released packages). http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa372380.aspx -----Original Message----- From: Sebastiaan Deckers [mailto:c...@pandion.im] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:59 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade Hi all, Is there a way to prevent removal of specific components when removal is part of a major upgrade, as opposed to just an uninstallation? My app creates certain registry entries at runtime (not the installer but the actual software). I would like to keep these during an upgrade while still cleaning them up during installation. I created a Component with RemoveRegistryKey tags and gave it a Condition that checks for a variable "AUTOUPDATE" which gets passed via command line in case of a major upgrade. This doesn't seem to work as the registry keys are always removed, regardless of the AUTOUPDATE variable. Source code: http://github.com/pandion/pandion/blob/master/Installer/WiX/product.wxs#L259 Any suggestions? Sebastiaan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
