If theUpgradeCode is stable then I don't see anything obvious. What does verbose logfile for update show?
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, PKEuS <philipp.kl...@web.de> wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, sorry for posting this a second time, but my first post (via > nabble) seems to have been rejected, because I hadn't received subscription > confirmation mail before. > > I am a dev of the cppcheck project and I am trying to improve our > installer. > We are using WiX, and the original installer was built using WiX 3.5. You > can see the original installer code here: > https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/tree/master/win_installer > > I switched to WiX 3.6(.3303), made the necessary changes to source to make > it work and made a few improvements: > I added several features and removed others. > I added some files and added some more <RemoveFile> > I set UI to <UIRef Id="WixUI_FeatureTree"/> > > I did not change existing GUIDs, especially not the UpgradeCode. Id of > <Product> is set to "*". > > But it fails to update existing installations (based on old installer built > with 3.5). It moves the new files into the destination directory and a new > entry "Cppcheck 1.57 dev" (If I call this Version 1.57 or 1.56.99 doesn't > matter - it has no impact on the behaviour of the installer) entry appears > in the "Add or Remove a Program" dialog, but the old "Cppcheck 1.56" entry > isn't removed. When trying to uninstall, only files that were not already > in > 1.56 are removed. > > For previous versions, updating worked (e.g. 1.55 -> 1.56). > > You can find modified project here: > http://kloke-witten.dyndns.org/~philipp/Temp/win_installer.zip > > > Any ideas? > > > PKEuS > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Major-upgrade-stops-working-after-doing-small-changes-and-switching-to-3-6-tp7581476.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
