Unless you also change the Upgrade table when you're poking around in your MSI with Orca, it's not going to see the "2.0.0.0" as a new package if you didn't add a MajorUpgrade element when you authored your package.
See http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/updates/major_upgrade.html Palbinder Sandher Software Platform Engineer T:+44 (0) 141 945 8500 F:+44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: fom Forstner Michael [mailto:f...@keba.com] Sent: 08 April 2014 09:09 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Modify MSI version Hello, I'm trying to understand how MSI does decide if to use the cached package or the original package I start from. Therefore I installed one of my packages with version 1.0.0.0 . After that I opened the package with Orca and change the product version property to 2.0.0.0 and gave the product code a new GUID. My understanding until now was, that after those changes MSI should consider the new package as an upgrade while installing it. But it doesn't. Upon call the logger say's the following: [09:44:37:947]: Original package ==> D:\Test.msi [09:44:37:947]: Package we're running from ==> C:\Windows\Installer\145ea53f.msi The installation then doesn't generate an error but doesn't install the new version either. Instead it starts only reconfigurating version 1.0.0.0. (Counter check: When I install only the modified version 2.0.0.0, the correct version is registered in the system. So the change itself seems legit) Does anyone know why this is? Do I need to change more? Is it even possible? kind regards, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
