[wix-users] Bundle: How to stop evaluating a condition at Uninstall?

Jeremy Drake jeremydrake+wix at eacceleration.com
Thu Oct 8 08:15:34 PDT 2015


I have usually seen the recommendation to use WixBundleInstalled OR (...)

for example
http://howdididothatthingagain.blogspot.com/2013/06/conditioning-wix-bundle-when-it-should.html

I don't remember burn setting a REMOVE variable, that may just be from 
within an MSI.

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Phill Hogland wrote:

> I have not used bal:Condition for some time, since I have a mba, but I think you want to add AND NOT REMOVE to your CDATA statement.
> http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/conditions-custom-actions-used-msi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Farrukh Waheed
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 8:03 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: [wix-users] Bundle: How to stop evaluating a condition at Uninstall?
>
> Hello mates,
> I have a situation where in my Bundle, a condition evaluating at install time, Must Not Be  evaluated at uninstall time.
>
> Scenario is, a pre-requisite application is uninstalled before removing my Bundle. Now when my Bundle would be uninstalled, it will try to evaluate bal:Condition to check that pre-req application, and would go false and refused to uninstal.
>
> I feel, I'm just missing something here... Here is my Condition xml
>    <bal:Condition Message="[WixBundleName] requires the PreReq. "  >
>      <![CDATA[Installed AND ((PreReq_161_Maj_Ver = 16) AND (PreReq_161_Min_Ver >= 1))]]>
>    </bal:Condition>
>
>
> Thanks a bunch.
> Farrukh
>
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