If a service update (a MajorUpgrade of a service installation) fails for some 
reason, and a rollback to the previous version happens, what happens if the MSI 
for the rollback cannot be found? Would this leave no files from the first 
package in the installation directory? I guess I may have naïvely thought that 
the rollback would just use the directory as is. If that's the case, what 
caches a copy of MSIs in the system directory so we can use them in this 
situation? We'd like to keep a sensibly named version in our own installer 
directory on these machines so technicians can do the installation manually 
under certain circumstances and to interoperate with our file transfer 
mechanism (details of no importances).

I'm trying to figure out why an install of one of our services had the net 
effect of simply deleting the old files but repair (of the seemingly installed 
new package) restored the new ones. All I know is accidentally old versions of 
the executable and libraries were included in the new MSI.

Moreover, what is supposed to happen in general in a MajorUpgrade if the 
KeyPathed file is of a previous version than the one currently installed?

I take it in that case any CompanionFiles of that will "come along for the 
ride" regardless of what happens, correct?

Thanks,


Keith Douglas
Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6
Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6
keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca
Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405
Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada 



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