Providing an exe to fix a bad uninstall seems lazy/wrong to me. One should ask for a fixed installer, short of that I can only think of two options. The first is as you suggested with a stub exe to run the uninstall and then the cleanup utility. The second option would be to modify the bad msi via direct edits or a transform to make it well behaved.
On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:10 PM, "Christopher Painter" <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: > > > I've got a weird scenario involving AdobeFlash. They have an MSI, > TRANSFORM and MSP that I need to use to install. However, their uninstall > is broken (incomplete) and they provide an EXE to run to do a complete > uninstall. > > We created a bundle to lay this all down but we are getting stuck on the > uninstall side. We want either > > a) Burn runs the MSI for install but not uninstall and run the EXE for > uninstall of the MSI (but has no install) > a1) I can think of a way of creating a man in the middle EXE to handle > both install and uninstall but this is hackish. > > b) Have burn install everything but never register the bundle with the > system. We tried the DisableRepair/Remove/Change and while it doesn't show > in ARP, a second run of the EXE shows the meta is present on the system. > > > (b) is a viable option for us because SCCM can run burn to do the install > and run the EXE provided by Adobve for the uninstall. > > Any thoughts? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
