Another thing you might try, if it's viable for your installer, is to
have it uninstall/remove the previous version and do a re-install. We do
this with our automated builds/deployments for Quality Assurance (which
may happen a few times a day on some projects.) Section four of 'the
tutorial' covers this:
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php
Basically, create an upgrade code Id, make your Product and Package ID's
auto-generate (set them to "*") and put an upgrade section under your
product node that encompasses whatever you have set for your product
version. Ours looks a lot like this:
<Upgrade Id="YOUR-UPGRADE-GUID">
<UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect="no" Property="PREVIOUSFOUND"
Minimum="2.0.0.0" IncludeMinimum="yes" Maximum="3.0.0.0"
IncludeMaximum="yes" />
</Upgrade>
Just be sure your Product version is within the specified range.
This should un-unstall and re-install your entire package. Works for us,
anyway.
-Matt
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:37 AM
To: Fanshteyn, Timur; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Automatic repair during install
You could author the REINSTALLMODE Property into your MSI. That might
force it to always replace all files. That is a very dangerous thing to
do in general, because I believe you can downgrade files. You have to
be very certain you are installing only your files.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fanshteyn,
Timur
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 09:56
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Automatic repair during install
I have a server installation - no UI , installs a service on server. How
can I have the MSI package repair the installation during install.
Here is a scenario:
Install package
Modify one of the files that was installed (using notpad for example)
Rerun the installation
I would like the installation replace the changed file with the
original. The only way that I was able to do this is by specifying
REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALL REINSTALLMODE=amus
Default REINSTALLMODE of omus did not replace the file as expected. I
would like to be able to run identical command line every time to either
install the package, or to correct a problem with a prior install.
Timur Fanshteyn
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