I'm not attempting to upgrade anything. I'm trying to use this mechanism to solve a problem with feature set installation (which I described in another email).
Basically my installer users can choose between 2 features in a dialog. The problem is that the dialog choice is not available at the time of CostFinalize and it doesn't seem possible to re-sequence the UI standard actions. So simply modifying ADDLOCAL does not work. The relationship between these 2 features is that one is a subset of the other. So two possible strategies may work: 1. Install the subset and possibly add the other files, OR 2. Install the superset and subtract (i.e. remove files). When I discovered the post that contained "RemoveFiles" I was hopeful that usage of "Remove" elements might lend itself towards a solution based on the 2nd strategy. But based on your email I appear to be barking up the wrong tree. It looks like it will be necessary to resort to a very ugly kludge, namely including a helper exe in the installer that will remove the unwanted files. -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 7:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts doesn't work in 3.5 There's a lot of other stuff that needs doing for upgrades to work, and you haven't said if you actually have it, such as upgrade specifications in your WiX. I'd look at all your FindRelatedProducts actions in your install to see if they report anything about finding older versions of your product. It's also not obvious that this is a solution to your problem, whatever it is. During an upgrade the state of files being installed or removed is about whether they have the same component guids or not. In the scenario where RemoveExistingProducts after InstallFinalize works, look at it something like this as a general flow guide: Every file in your original install has a guid associated with it. All the files in your upgrade where you want to replace the old file with your new file need the same component guid. The upgrade install runs. Every file gets replaced, based on file version rules where applicable. Where the component guids are identical the ref count on that guid increments from 1 to 2. At the end the RemoveExistingProducts runs. It will look at each file's guid and decrement the ref count. If it goes from 2 to 1 the file will not be removed (it's in use by the product you just installed). If the ref count on a guid goes down to zero then nothing is using it. So it gets removed. If you don't want filexyz.exe in the product then just don't put it in your upgrade. Once you get the upgrade really working with RemoveExistingProducts, if it's not being removed then something else is going on (clobbered ref counts, marked permanent etc). Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Peter Stein [mailto:pst...@instec-corp.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:40 PM To: 'WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts doesn't work in 3.5 I based my code on this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3287626/wix-installer-remove-files-on-uninstall-but-not-on-upgrade I saw no complaints about the suggested answer so I assumed it worked. But when I adapted to my code it does nothing. In product.wxs: <InstallExecuteSequence> <RemoveExistingProducts After='InstallFinalize'>1</RemoveExistingProducts> </InstallExecuteSequence> And in my main installation directory I added: <Component Id="RemoveFilesComponent" Guid="A749202E-E09A-4DED-B205-337B0E7FB736"> <RemoveFile Id="R1" On="both" Name="filexyz.exe"/> </Component> The installer runs and completes without error or warnings, but filexyz.exe is not removed. As an experiment I tried "*.*", but that didn't remove anything neither. The msi.log shows RemoveExistingProducts being invoked, but it doesn't remove anything. What am I missing? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. 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