[wix-devs] In burn verifying a prerequisite is installed during install but doesn't matter during uninstall...

[Edwin Castro]

Sorry. Didn't realize this was sent to wix-devs.

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Edwin G. Castro


On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 09:01 Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Edwin Castro via wix-devs
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 10:46 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com>; Steve Ogilvie <sogilvie at msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] In burn verifying a prerequisite is installed
> during install but doesn't matter during uninstall...
>
> I defined the following
>
>   <?define BootstrapperActionInstall = 4?>
>   <?define BundleIsUninstalling = "(WixBundleAction <
> $(var.BootstrapperActionInstall))"?>
>
> Then I use it as the first part of my condition (usually in DetectCondition
> attributes)
>
> $(var.BundleIsUninstalling) OR (Actual Condition Here...)
>
> I'm guessing that in your case you may need
>
> <bal:Condition Message="#(loc.ParentProductNotInstalled_Message)">
>   <![CDATA[$(var.BundleIsUninstalling) OR (ISPARENTPRODUCTINSTALLED >=
> $(var.ParentProdcutVersion))]]> </bal:Condition>
>
> If you are uninstalling, then the other condition doesn't matter.
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:07 AM Steve Ogilvie via wix-devs <
> wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am verifying that a prerequisite for our installer is already
> > installed (it is the parent product of what we are installing).
> >
> > It is working fine, during install, it detects whether or not the
> > product is installed.
> > However, on uninstall if the parent product is not present the
> > installer won’t uninstall (which is not good), I have played around
> > trying to fix this and not having a good fix.
> > I end up getting the installer failing on the condition that the
> > parent product is NOT installed (but on uninstall it doesn’t matter).
> >
> > So I need:
> >
> >   1.  On install make sure the parent product exists in order for us
> > to install
> >   2.  On uninstall it doesn’t matter if parent product exists or not…
> >
> > Here is my code:
> > <?define ParentProdcutVersion = v2.10.0.0 ?> <util:ProductSearch
> > Id="ISPARENTPRODUCTINSTALLED" UpgradeCode="{<the upgrade GUID of the
> > parent product}" Result="version"
> > Variable="ISPARENTPRODUCTINSTALLED" />
> >
> > <!-- Check to make sure Parent product is installed -->
> >   <bal:Condition Message="#(loc.ParentProductNotInstalled_Message)">
> >     <![CDATA[NOT Installed AND (ISPARENTPRODUCTINSTALLED >=
> > $(var.ParentProdcutVersion))]]>
> >   </bal:Condition>
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Steve Ogilvie
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