Hi there, I'm new to this list and am writing because I feel like im a Catch-22 situation.
I'm maintaining a WiX-authored MSI installer for our company's product which supports major upgrades. In addition to the main product A, we're also installing a standalone application B that checks if all of A's required files have been installed, and have the expected file version, file size etc. B must be run after a successful install, which might or might not require a reboot, and after all installed files have actually been written to their target destinations. The original author of the installer solved this for the reboot case with the following sequencing in the InstallExecuteSequence table (excerpt): - InstallInitialize - [...] - InstallExecute - RemoveExistingProducts - Check if a reboot is required, and if yes, run a CA that writes RunOnceEx key to run B after next reboot; this requires elevated permissions, therefore CA must run deferred - InstallFinalize So far, so good(?). Now for the next major upgrade, the above requirements still hold, while we're now also installing 3rd party .NET assemblies to the GAC whose version is not under our control. This leads to the issue described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238, "An assembly in the global assembly cache or SxS is missing after you perform a major upgrade by using a Windows Installer package". The recommended solution is to schedule RemoveExistingProducts after InstallFinalize. However, (and now comes the Catch-22), while checking whether a reboot is required only makes sense after RemoveExistingProducts, the CA cannot be scheduled after InstallFinalize, because it requires elevation, which in turn requires it be scheduled between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize. Conversely, if I schedule the CA between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize, the reboot check might not be meaningful because RemoveExistingProducts has not run yet. I'd be extremely grateful for any ideas or suggestions. Best, Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
