[WiX-users] why uninstall msp have REINSTALLMODE as all files to be overwritten ?

2013-08-23 Thread william lee
Hi, uninstalling a msp, I found shared components files downgrade to original version. such shared components have ref counting and msidbComponentAttributesShared. it should keep highest version when other product also refer it, as promised by msidbComponentAttributesShared attribute. I inspect

Re: [WiX-users] why uninstall msp have REINSTALLMODE as all files to be overwritten ?

2013-08-23 Thread Phil Wilson
There are some caveats. I'm pretty sure you need MSI 4.5, and you can't add msidbComponentAttributesShared in the patch - it needs to be in the original product install, in case you're doing that. Phil Wilson On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:24 AM, william lee wele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,