Daniel,
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8240111 has been updated with
the evaluation of your request. Please take a look.
- Alexey
On 2/27/2020 2:00 AM, Daniel Peintner wrote:
Alexey, all,
In my case the update, as described, seems to work just fine. However
once I try to actually start the application nothing happens. It
silently fails.
Could this be a reason why you don't encounter any issue? Just an idea
though...
-- Daniel
Alexey Semenyuk <alexey.semen...@oracle.com
<mailto:alexey.semen...@oracle.com>> schrieb am Mi., 26. Feb. 2020, 22:56:
Daniel,
Interesting. We have jtreg tests for testing upgrade scenarios on
Windows and they work without Upgrade element in WiX template.
- Alexey
On 2/26/2020 11:10 AM, Daniel Peintner wrote:
> All,
>
> after some private discussions with James and @Kevinnns I
believe the
> necessary change to let upgrades succeed is rather minimal.
>
> The WIX template jpackage uses
>
> <Product Id="*" Name="$(var.AppName)" Language="1033"
> Version="$(var.AppVersion)" Manufacturer="$(var.AppVendor)"
> UpgradeCode="$(var.AppUpgradeCode)">
>
> needs to have
>
> <Upgrade Id="$(var.AppUpgradeCode)" />
>
> as well within the product element.
>
> I wonder whether anyone in the jpackage team is willing to work
or look
> into this proposed change. Or does this cause any other issue I
am not
> aware of?
>
> As said, I think this would be a big help for anyone coming from
the *old*
> javapackager tool.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 4:30 PM Daniel Peintner
<daniel.peint...@gmail.com <mailto:daniel.peint...@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi James, all,
>>
>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>
>> I did try around and I think there is a jpackage upgrade ID
option now.
>>
>> --win-upgrade-uuid <string> — UUID associated with upgrades for
this
>> package
>>
>> In my case though, I think I run into some other issues. The
InnoSetup
>> installer seems not to provide any UUID.
>>
>> I believe I also found a related issue [1] that mentions UUID and
>> InnoSetup but unfortunately that didn't help me either.
>>
>> Thanks again for any help,
>>
>> -- Daniel
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214564
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 5:38 PM James Elliott
<ja...@deepsymmetry.org <mailto:ja...@deepsymmetry.org>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, tried sending this with the incorrect email personality
first.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:32:14 +0100 Daniel Peintner <
>>> daniel.peint...@gmail.com <mailto:daniel.peint...@gmail.com>
<mailto:daniel.peint...@gmail.com
<mailto:daniel.peint...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>> The only *working* solution we found was to *manually*
uninstall the old
>>>> application before starting msi installer.
>>>> Any future update with msi installers work fine. But the
first update
>>> fails!
>>>
>>> I had been previously manually creating WiX installers (with
the help of
>>> a script built by one of my Windows-based users), and he
discovered the
>>> same problem when I migrated to jpackage. It turns out that the
>>> jpackage-built WiX installers are missing an upgrade ID. I
mentioned that
>>> on this list a few weeks ago, but there was not any interest in
>>> investigating the issue.
>>>
>>> So now I use jpackage to just create the application image,
and then
>>> separately use WiX directly to create an installer that can
properly
>>> upgrade older installations. You can find the GitHub Actions
workflow that
>>> drives the process here:
>>>
>>>
https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml#L84-L144
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml*L84-L144__;Iw!!GqivPVa7Brio!LYzdLFh5v8DMnAKHvh4rZHAApveVQIcLFDgeEisOIhEJ4otLO9CwsNXryAngS7-AM7YV$>
>>> <
>>>
https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml#L84-L144
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml*L84-L144__;Iw!!GqivPVa7Brio!LYzdLFh5v8DMnAKHvh4rZHAApveVQIcLFDgeEisOIhEJ4otLO9CwsNXryAngS7-AM7YV$>
>>> The PowerShell script that runs jpackage and WiX is here:
>>>
>>>
https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!LYzdLFh5v8DMnAKHvh4rZHAApveVQIcLFDgeEisOIhEJ4otLO9CwsNXryAngS2PBkRF4$>
>>> <
>>>
https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!LYzdLFh5v8DMnAKHvh4rZHAApveVQIcLFDgeEisOIhEJ4otLO9CwsNXryAngS2PBkRF4$>
>>> And the WIX template it uses is here:
>>>
>>>
https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI%20Template.wxs
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI*20Template.wxs__;JQ!!GqivPVa7Brio!LYzdLFh5v8DMnAKHvh4rZHAApveVQIcLFDgeEisOIhEJ4otLO9CwsNXryAngS2imkvmE$>
>>> <
>>>
https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI%20Template.wxs
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI*20Template.wxs__;JQ!!GqivPVa7Brio!LYzdLFh5v8DMnAKHvh4rZHAApveVQIcLFDgeEisOIhEJ4otLO9CwsNXryAngS2imkvmE$>
>>> Hopefully this can help you, and perhaps jpackage can be
updated to do
>>> this on its own as well.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
