The remarks at
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/dependency/providerkey.html
say

This provider key is designed to persist throughout compatible upgrades so
that dependent bundles do not have to be reinstalled and *will not prevent
your product from being upgraded*. If this attribute is not authored, the
value is the automatically-generated bundle ID and *will not automatically
support upgrades*.

This sounds like I was not getting some kind of automatic upgrade support
because we had not defined ProviderKey. Is this automatic upgrade support
described anywhere? What happens when I define it in version Y and try to
upgrade version X where version Y > version X and ProviderKey was not
defined for version X?



On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Phill Hogland <phogl...@rimage.com> wrote:

> >>So it looks like the bootstrapper is not passing BUNDLEPROVIDERKEY to the
> MSI at all.
>
> You need to define Bundle/@ProviderKey,  here
> <http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/bundle.html>  .  I
> set it to a GUID (and like UpgradeCode I do not change the
> Bundle/@ProviderKey between builds (or releases) of my setups).
>
>
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