A patch is simply shipping "part" of an "imaginary" MSI that would have been
installed using the "v" value as part of the REINSTALLMODE property supplied
on the commandline. Thus, your upgraded authoring needs to include the
authoring needed to get your custom action to do what it needs to do. That
In your XmlFile elements make sure you set @SelectionLanguage to XPath. The
obsolete XSLPattern default value uses a now obsolete predecessor to XPath
for the pattern matching.
Blair
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Thanks Rob,
will give it a go and keep informed if I manage to solve it.
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Thanks again Peter. I think I will read the MS whitepaper on patching because
it is clear that our current strategy does not fit with the MSI model of
updates. We may take the opportunity to change our model as you suggest.
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snajay
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> From: Peter Shirtcliffe
And the MSDN docs *recommend* RunOnce as a way to finish application setups. It
does seem unfair for an AV product to decide to prevent completion of
application setup. InstallShield uses the RunOnce key too, judging from search
hits and their content.
Phil W
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There are other triggers in the MSI that can cause install on demand from the
MSI, advertised COM being one, and I think file extensions do it too, but I
don't know if that's an option for this particular issue.
Of course Active Setup can do it, yes, maybe that's a solution, getting Windows
t
Burn is a little different because it is designed to recover from power
failures and unexpected reboots. To do that it writes to the RunOnce
registry key up front.
Other bootstrappers/chainers may not write to RunOnce except when a force
reboot is required in the middle of the chain. Then the
boot
1. The InstallConditions are evaluated before any packages are executed.
Look in the bundle log file and you should be able to see the "plan" that
spells out what is going to be done to each package.
2. The Condition attribute on the Bundle element determines whether the
Bundle can be launched at
You'd have to have an MSI that installs the MSI.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jammer wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Is it possible to copy an .msi or .exe from within the bundle to the
> install location?
>
> I have a product included in my installer that I'd like to copy to the
> install location i
Actually I just realized I've been saying it all. I've been implying that
the repair approach and the active setup approach are mutually exclusive.
In fact the active setup is just a way to trigger the repair through a
command line when an advertised shortcut is unavailable.
I'm sorry if I w
l've used the Active Setup technique and replication occurred right away
when the user logged on.
Make sure you are using a clean machine such as a snapshotted VM to ensure
a good testing environment. It could be that replication already occurred
and isn't occuring again because the Version
Definitely bug. Not sure that is known so please open.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Naim Kingston wrote:
> I'm getting a strange bug where if I run a bootstrapper created with burn
> from an administrator command line prompt AND specify a log file, then the
> bootstrapper will hang before e
Log in won't cause replication of the keys. An earlier post mentioned that you
need an advertised shortcut.
Phil W
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:06 AM
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On 1/13/12 7:28 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe wrote:
> Why not check it when the application starts up ?
The product in question runs as a service. There is no GUI. The Java
wrapper could only log the error and quit.
For that reason, the product marketing tells us we should check the
prerequisite softw
My WiX installer removes the VC10 redistributable merge modules on upgrade. It
unpublishes the MMs but does not reinstall them (and yes, my
RemoveExistingProducts action occurs AFTER InstallInitialize). I'm hoping
someone on this list can assist me in figuring out the issue. Here is my WiX
scri
I have tried using the Active Setup keys but when the other user logs in the
replication isn't occurring nor is the repair type install.
Here is what my setup looks like:
HKCU items are in separate components so that they can have t
In principal, you can search the environment variables (like JAVA_HOME) for the
relevant executable. You could extend this to also search in all the usual
locations where Java is installed also. Once you've got some candidates, you
can check the versions of each of them for suitability in the
Unfortunately, for a lot of our customers, the device/server the app is
being installed on probably won't have access to the internet. The install
had to be written to the lowest common denominator - a standalone device
without any connectivity.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Peter Shirtcliff
Much as I don't like to put people off MSI, would something like Java Web
Start serve you better ?
We test for JRE installations in our product using the upgrade code/product
code. This is easy to test for if you're only interested in a specific
JRE/JDK version. You could do this with the upgrade
The app being installed is a Java app. Can't run it without Java being
installed. If Java isn't installed, the installer needs to quit with an
error msg to the user.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe wrote:
> Why not check it when the application starts up ? It'll be easier to c
Why not check it when the application starts up ? It'll be easier to code and
the user has the option of installing Java after your product instead of
forcing it to be done beforehand.
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From: T. Kuro Kurosaka [mailto:k...@basistech.com]
Sent: 12 January 2012 23:50
To: wi
Here is something I had put together quite a while ago that works for me.
You should be able to modify it to do what you need. You could change the
CustomAction to SetProperty elements.
JAVA_JRE_HOME
SetJavaJdkJreHomeVBS.wxi:
http://schemas.mic
Those were my thoughts initially as well but for this particular setting that
doesn't work. :(
Jon
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From: Dan Gough [mailto:goug...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:21 PM
To: chr...@iswix.com; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Peter Hull wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:56:15 +0100
> > From: n...@panorama9.com
> > > I would start by digitally signing your burn bundle.
> >
> >
> > The bundle is already signed with a Thawte code signing certificate
> The reported file name looks mor
Addiditonal info:
If I try to Disable the UI for the MSIPackage, it fails since the UAC is
turned on and the prompt to key in the admin credentials are not shown. The
MSI already have the "elevated" value in its package.
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Hi All
I want to use a dependency on another product , can someone tell me how to do
this?
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Hi All,
I have been having problems with the Burn bootstrapper when the MSIPackage is
installed with the "DisplayInternalUI=yes". We need this as a requirement.
The problem I face is that When we click on "Cancel" for the MSI installation,
the whole prerequisite is going into a reinstall or rep
You need to add to a patch family. I
recommend using a unique patch family only for that purpose. Note that if
you have other components in the same entry section (i.e.,
element fragment) they will be included as well. It's best to always put
anything that can be in a fragment in a fragment (like
There were some changes post-beta and we're working to get a new build
published. Most of the scenarios are working now. Stayed tuned on
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths for more information when I can find time to
start documenting the feature (and the protocol).
On Thursday, January 12, 2012, Krysch
Hi there,
during my installation I need to create a shortcut in the users start
menu that points to a website. Thanks to it is
not an unresolvable problem, but... ;o)
I like to define an icon for this menu item but I can't find any
property to set an reference for example. Is there a way to
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