Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the registry keys still seem to get deleted during the upgrade. I'm using a RemoveRegistryKey/removeOnUninstall with the "NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE" Condition. My guess is that the Condition gets evaluated at installation time instead of during the upgrade. Is that how it works? Then how can I delete these registry keys only during a manual uninstall, while leaving them intact during an upgrade?
Thanks again, Sebastiaan On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
