[wix-users] Wix Burn: Rollbackboundary was discarded?

[Phill Hogland]

Yes it will rollback, and the Permanent items in the chain, if installed will still be installed, the same as what you are trying to do with the RollbackBoundary.  You don't ever need to use a RollbackBoundary.   The RollbackBoundary just says that if something in the chain needs to do a rollback, that the rollback only proceeds back up the chain to the point where it encounters the first RollbackBoundary, and that the items above the RollbackBoundary (none-permanent items) should not be uninstalled (or rolled back) in that particular install action.  In this case the only items above the RollbackBoundary are already marked as permanent, so the RollbackBoundary is not really needed (and in my experience caused problems when there were only 'permanent' items above a RollbackBoundary).  The bundle with only 'Permanent' items remaining could not be uninstalled or upgraded, as the uninstall would immediately return success and leave the bundle registration (and the permanent packages) installed.  So for an upgrade the result was multiple registration entries rather than a major upgrade behavior.   

I am no expert and there may be other considerations that I am not aware of, but this has been my experience.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Farrukh Waheed
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 11:56 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Wix Burn: Rollbackboundary was discarded?

So if I don't use RollbackBoundary for only 1 non-permanent package, would it Rollback if I cancel its installation in the middle?

On 16 September 2015 at 17:16, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
wrote:

> I would expect NetFx451Redist and VC_ReDist_120 to be permanent.  If I 
> did not have another package that was not permanent prior to the 
> RollbackBoundary then I don't use a RollbackBoundry.  I only use a 
> RollbackBoundary after other non-permanent packages, because of the 
> issues that I have observed when all of the packages prior to the 
> RollbackBoundary were marked as Permanent.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On 
> Behalf Of Farrukh Waheed
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 2:28 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Wix Burn: Rollbackboundary was discarded?
>
> Hi Phil, Thanks for reply.
> Yes, both are marked Permanent. I will try without Permanent attribute 
> then
>
> Regards
> Farrukh
>
> On 15 September 2015 at 17:53, Phill Hogland 
> <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Are both NetFx451Redist and VC_ReDist_120 marked to be Permanent?  I 
> > have found that RollbackBoundary(s) do not play well when all of the 
> > packages prior to the RollbackBoundary are permanent and there for 
> > there would be nothing to uninstall if the setup rolled back to that 
> > boundary.  I am not sure if my observation is related to your situation.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Farrukh Waheed
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 5:13 AM
> > To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> > Subject: [wix-users] Wix Burn: Rollbackboundary was discarded?
> >
> > While compiling Burn project I'm getting following warning:
> >
> > MyBundle.wxs(111,0): warning LGHT1129: The RollbackBoundary 
> > 'rba6ABCDA022AB9852FA39D23549E335DF4' was discarded because it was 
> > not followed by a package. Without a package the rollback boundary 
> > doesn't do anything. Verify that the RollbackBoundary element is not 
> > followed by another RollbackBoundary and that the element is not at 
> > the end of the chain.
> >
> > And here is my chain:
> >
> > <Chain>
> >   <PackageGroupRef Id         = "NetFx451Redist"  />
> >   <PackageGroupRef Id         = "VC_ReDist_120" After="NetFx451Redist"
>  />
> >
> >   <RollbackBoundary />
> >   <MsiPackage      Id         = "MainProduct"
> >                    DisplayName             = "$(var.ProductName)"
> >                    DisplayInternalUI       = "no"
> >                    Visible                 = "no"
> >                    Compressed              = "yes"
> >                    SourceFile              = "$(var.MainProduct)"
> >                    Vital                   = "yes"
> >                    After                   = "NetFx451Redist"
> >                    InstallCondition="NETFRAMEWORK45 >= 
> > $(var.NetFx451MinRelease)">
> >     <MsiProperty
> >         Name                  = "DIR_PROGFILES_64_VA"
> >         Value                 = "[DestinationDir]"/>
> >   </MsiPackage>
> >
> > *Question:* So what's wrong with this RollbackBoundary here?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Farrukh
> >
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