[wix-users] Replacing old cached bundle.exe

Farrukh Waheed farrukh1 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 10:00:10 PDT 2015


For what purpose you want to do that?

On 17 September 2015 at 20:56, Roni Fuchs <ronif at microsoft.com> wrote:

> PS:
>
> What do I need to change in the registry for the OS to ignore the old
> bundle (other fields/keys I need to change?)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Roni
>
> From: Roni Fuchs
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 14:57
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Replacing old cached bundle.exe
>
> Hi everyone,
> I've installed version 1 with an old installer (using burn) - that doesn't
> support upgrades (and silent uninstallation)
> I've created a new installer for version 2 that supports both.
>
> Now I want to (somehow?) upgrade a computer that installed v1 to v2
> without uninstalling v1.
> I thought about replacing the cached burn.exe at "C:\ProgramData\Package
> Cache\{GUID}\Burn.exe" but that causes weird behavior (entry is not updated
> accordingly at Programs and Features, can't uninstall later, etc.)
>
> Is there a way to do this?
> What can I do to switch the old cached installer?
> Do I need to make sure it has the old version number? (1?)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roni (Aron) Fuchs
>
>
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