Ship the patch in a Bundle.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, George Fleming <gef...@microsoft.com>wrote:

> I have two applications, a MSI and a bootstrapper/UI that invokes the MSI.
>  To prevent double ARP entries, we set the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property in
> the bootstrapper <bundle>.
>
> This works fine, except when we apply a patch.  Because the MSI is
> blocked, so is its patch.  We cannot see it, and therefore cannot uninstall
> the patch.
>
> If I force it to show up in ARP by adding registry entries, a patch that
> is applied to a MSI install (not through bootstrapper) now shows double
> patch entries in the ARP.
>
> What is correct way to handle this problem?  I'm using Wix 3.6.
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
>
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