[wix-users] WiX 3.10 bundle does not install MSI package

Trevor Elliott trevor.elliott at inflowinventory.com
Tue Sep 8 15:10:57 PDT 2015


Thanks for your help.  Turns out this was the issue.  While the WiX
projects were automatically referencing the new 3.10 DLLs after upgrading,
the burn bootstrapper was manually referencing a copy of the
BootstrapperCore.dll.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> In your WiX v3.10 code your BA is explicitly asking to only cache the
> packages:
>
>     73.[0F68:11B4][2015-09-08T13:55:35]i200: Plan begin, 22 packages,
> action: Cache
>
> Where in WiX v3.9 it was asking to install:
>
>     71.[0E70:1320][2015-09-08T13:56:59]i200: Plan begin, 22 packages,
> action: Install
>
> Take a look at your BA code (and make sure it was recompiled against the
> new WiX v3.10 headers).
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Trevor Elliott
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 1:54 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] WiX 3.10 bundle does not install MSI package
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> Here are the logs on pastebin:
>
> WiX 3.9 log: http://pastebin.com/CCdPn9jB WiX 3.10 log:
> http://pastebin.com/LeDFnqzg
>
> I do clean and recompile everything before each full build, which builds
> the Burn bootstrapper each time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Trevor
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The logs didn't actually get attached, but the problem is most likely
> > that you must recompile your custom BA with 3.10.  Custom BA's must be
> > recompiled when changing WiX versions, at least in 3.x.  Hoping to
> > change that in 4.0.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Trevor Elliott <
> > trevor.elliott at inflowinventory.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Rob,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply.  Here are the logs from the WiX 3.9 and WiX
> > > 3.10 installs.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Trevor
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Need to see more of the log file.
> > > >
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> > > Behalf
> > > > Of Trevor Elliott
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 10:42 AM
> > > > To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> > > > Subject: [wix-users] WiX 3.10 bundle does not install MSI package
> > > >
> > > > After upgrading from WiX 3.9 to WiX 3.10, my bundle installs are
> > > > now broken.
> > > >
> > > > Here's an excerpt from the log for when I'm installing the bundle
> > > > with
> > > WiX
> > > > 3.9:
> > > >
> > > > [0F68:1140][2015-09-08T13:24:07]i201: Planned package:
> > > inFlowSetup_x64.msi,
> > > > state: Absent, default requested: Present, ba requested: Present,
> > > execute:
> > > > Install, rollback: Uninstall, cache: Yes, uncache: No, dependency:
> > > Register
> > > >
> > > > Now here's the same line with WiX 3.10:
> > > >
> > > > [1DF0:1920][2015-09-08T11:52:32]i201: Planned package:
> > > inFlowSetup_x64.msi,
> > > > state: Absent, default requested: Cache, ba requested: Cache,
> execute:
> > > > None, rollback: None, cache: Yes, uncache: No, dependency: None
> > > >
> > > > All of my code is the same except that I updated from WiX 3.9 to
> > > > WiX
> > > 3.10.
> > > >
> > > > The only install condition I'm using is VersionNT64 or NOT
> > > > VersionNT64
> > > for
> > > > 32/64bit versions.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Trevor
> > > >
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