It is a known bug that if an upgrade changes the InstallScope parameter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/678002/how-do-i-fix-the-upgrade-logic-of-a-wix-setup-after-changing-installscope-to-pe?rq=1
The best course of action seems to be to instruct users do do a manual install before reinstalling this new package. This should be a one-shot action. -S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 5:39:51 AM Subject: Re: [virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer PATCH V2] Add InstallScope="perMachine" to virt-viewer.wxs.in On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 03:21:02PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > From: Sandy Stutsman <[email protected]> > > Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146016 > Without this parameter the installer will place the start menu icon in the > Admin users path rather than the 'AllUsers'. Unprivileged users are unable > to use the menu to start the remote-viewer. > > N.B. Because previous installations mixed Users and PerMachine (AllUsers) > paths, this installation will *NOT* properly upgrade them. They must be > manually uninstalled first. In what way are upgrades broken ? This is generally not something we wish to break for obvious reasons. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
