[wix-users] Missing directory when update product

[bpettorelli.ext at orange.com]

Hi,
I'm been dropped to solve issues of product install and I'm stumped to the update/upgrade process.

Let say, we have multiple products based on the same GUI but using different drivers and devices.
For the sample, I took 2 products.
Product 1 : Prod_195 contains the UI and a Drivers/Windows/x86 directory
Product 2 : Prod_192 contains the same structure

If I install/uninstall single product, everything goes well.

Now, I install Prod_195 and upgrade with Prod_192.

Both wxi fragment files contains :
<Directory Id="Prod_XXX_Drivers" Name="Drivers">
	<Component Id="Prod_XXX_Drivers" Guid="DRIVER_GUID">
	<Files . />
	</Component>
	<Directory Id="Prod_XXX_Windows" Name="Windows">
		<Component Id="Prod_XXX_Windows" Guid="WINDOWS_GUID">
			<Files . />
		</Component>
		<Directory Id="Prod_XXX_Windowsx86" Name="x86">
			<Component Id="Prod_XXX_Windowsx86" Guid="WINDOWSX86_GUID">
				<Files . />
			</Component>
		</Directory>
	</Directory>
</Directory>

In the upgrade process, I believe that MSI when it uninstalls Prod195, it deletes the directory Windows and its subdirectories.
But at the end, the MSI did not create the new Windows/x86 directory.

In the log, I found :

MSI (s) (AC:8C) [20:02:08:484]: Component: Prod_192_Windows; Installed: Absent;   Request: Local;   Action: Local
MSI (s) (AC:8C) [20:02:08:484]: Component: Prod_192_Windowsx86; Installed: Absent;   Request: Local;   Action: Null

MSI (s) (AC:98) [20:02:18:843]: Component: Prod_195_Windows; Installed: Local;   Request: Absent;   Action: Absent
MSI (s) (AC:98) [20:02:18:843]: Component: Prod_195_Windowsx86; Installed: Local;   Request: Absent;   Action: Absent


>From the log, I gess Action value will configure how the component will be installed. I'm right ? 

Does it exist a way to force the creation of the subdirectories of Windows?
I tried the Dependency Extension but I did not figure how to make it works.

Regards,
Bruno Pettorelli


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