Check out the File Versioning Rules topic in the MSI SDK. It explains this behavior.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Sanjay Poria <sanjay.po...@xanalys.com>wrote: > My company moved to using msi around a year and I authored a major product > release and subsequent patch files (small update msp's that do not > increment the baseline version) using wix. The product contains a number > of binary files. Recently we had an issue where the customer manually > replaced a couple of the binary files (.pdb) in the Program Files install > area. Now, there was a later issue which meant that they wanted to go back > to the latest installed version so we suggested just doing a "Repair" of > the product from the control panel... Unfortunately the repair had no > effect on the binary files and did not replace them with the version in the > latest installed product. > > After some research I find that if I manually run a repair with the /fo > flag (the default), the files are not replaced, but if I run it with /fd, > they are replaced as expected. > > The help says > o - Reinstalls if file is missing or an older version is installed. > d - Reinstalls if file is missing or a different version is installed. > > > My questions are: > - Why didn't msiexec realise the file was different based on the > differing timestamp > - More worrying, when doing a repair from the control panel, the > repair clearly fails for all/some of the files, but we get no error > message. Should we tell the client to always run it from the command line? > Can we build this option into the original msi and what are the downsides > of this? > - Clearly the customer is breaking some best practises by > overwriting files in the Program Files area but I did expect they would be > safe because the repair would work. Are there some rules we can give to the > customer to follow in the future? > > Any help is appreciated (especially because I know this is really a MSI > issue and not a Wix one). > Regards > sanjay > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial > Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support > Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services > Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
