[wix-users] Difxapp and minor upgrades

[Hannu Napari]

Hi,

Setupapi.dev.log does not reveal any issues. I am using difxapp exension. I
already tested manual installation and upgrade.
The behaviour was the same, i.e. the driver was not updated properly.

I have also checked (chkinf and manual review) the INF-file for errors, but
saw none. I think a minor upgrade should be able to upgrade
drivers as well, so my assumption is that there might be something wrong in
the INF-file. Any ideas what specific issues in the INF
file might cause this?

Regards,

//Hannu


On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
wrote:

> I would look at the setupapi.dev.log.
> Are you using the DiffxApp extension?
> Does your updated driver install properly by doing only the steps that the
> MSI is doing, manually without using MSI, such as by right clicking on the
> INF file?
>
> If doing a minor update of specific driver files I would think that would
> break the driver's code signing on the INF file, which would be one reason
> that the OS might load an older driver with a better driver rank value.
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff546225(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> I have never tried to do a minor update of a driver, just major updates of
> complete driver packages, but I would validate the driver update process
> using only INF tools, without using MSI before integrating the changes into
> a MSI package.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Hannu Napari
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 10:21 AM
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-users] Difxapp and minor upgrades
>
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be having some problems with drivers and minor upgrades on
> Windows 7, 8, and 10. The drivers in question are network filter drivers.
> If I create a minor upgrade package, the sys-files in system32\drivers are
> not updated correctly. After the upgrade the old versions of the sys-files
> are present, not the updated ones.
>
> The logs (MSI, setupapi) show no issues during the update. The driver
> files in system32\drvstore are updated as expected. Uninstallation works
> and it will remove the sys-files from system32/drivers as well. Also major
> upgrade works as expected.
>
> Any ideas where to look for the cause of this problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> //Hannu
>
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