[wix-users] Burn dependencies do not work after uninstall/upgrade

[Reuss, Matthias]

Sorry that I have to follow up to myself...

I found out that the subkeys of HKCR\Installer\Dependencies are removed on uninstallation of the bundle (regardless whether it is a "real" uninstall or an uninstall during bundle upgrade) if the CustomBA sets the request state of the respective package to None (in PlanPackageBegin). In this case, the Burn log file contains lines such as 

[0660:090C][2016-04-21T16:50:30]i329: Removed package dependency provider: {F34A6950-7E0E-4F92-8B0E-C552F4989DA4}, package: MyPackage

If the CustomBA does not touch the request state, the dependency registration remains intact.

My conclusion is that I must either fully rely on the registered dependencies (not touch the request states) - which is likely to be sufficient in most cases or - if I have to touch the request states because of some conditional uninstallation - I cannot use the registered dependencies at all.

Is that true?´

Best regards

Matthias Reuss

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Von: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] Im Auftrag von Reuss, Matthias
Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2016 17:50
An: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Betreff: [wix-users] Burn dependencies do not work after upgrade

Hello,

Using WiX 3.9R2, I try to install and uninstall several bundles that have several packages in common. Of course, I want those shared packages to be uninstalled only if no other bundle still needs them.

If I install each bundle only once, this works fine. Burn does some persistent bookkeeping under HKCR\Installer\Dependencies and uses this for refcounting on uninstall.

But if I upgrade one bundle, this does not work anymore. When I uninstall this bundle after upgrade, all the shared packages will be removed.

I found out that the related registry subkeys of HKCR\Installer\Dependencies are removed during the upgrade.

So what can I do about this? Is it a WiX bug? Or do I have to somehow declare those dependencies manually?

Best regards

Matthias Reuss

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