[wix-users] Burn bundle only executes last MspPackage in chain

Thu Aug 18 14:04:28 PDT 2016

Now that we've figured out that to have burn patches work, we have to use 29.0.0.X format.  But I ran across a new problem.  The idea is that we'd use sequential patching, and people can download the MSPs that they need, and not any obsolete ones, and we'd have one patch bundle that executes all of the MSPs that are regularly updated with new MSPs.

For example, let's say there's 5 MSPs, 29.0.0.1 to 29.0.0.5.  The person has 29.0.0.3 installed.  So we'd automatically download 29.0.0.4 and 29.0.0.5 MSPs, but with a burn bundle that has all of the 1 to 5 MSPs listed.  It skips those that doesn't exist, and installs the ones that does.  I've figured the skipping part out, and it works correctly.  However, it only installs the last patch listed.  In this case, the 29.0.0.5 MSP.  The 4 is skipped.

Looking at the log doesn't help.  It looks identical for both patches (I'm testing with 1 and 2).  I wonder if since it's the 4th number, it assumes that MSPs with lower revision numbers are superseded?  If so, how do I work around this?  Theoretically, I could manually call Process.Start from inside bootstrapper for all except last MSP, but that defeats the purpose of having a burn bundle.

This is what the bundle looks like (We have an utility that adds an entry for each MSP, and "REPLACE_MSP_NAME" is a variable that the bootstrapper sets when it does a scan for MSP files:

       <Chain>
              <MspPackage SourceFile="{PATH_TO_PATCH_MSP}" Compressed="no" Cache="no" Vital="yes" InstallCondition="{REPLACE_MSP_NAME}="True"" />
       </Chain>

Here is the relevant log:

Detect part:

[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i100: Detect begin, 2 packages
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i102: Detected related bundle: {acc3238e-f865-4bf7-894a-3ead7785406c}, type: Dependent, scope: PerMachine, version: 29.0.0.0, operation: None
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i106: Calculating patch applicability for target product code: {945774F5-9F8E-46F7-9F91-FEDD93FE9B93}, context: Machine
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i101: Detected package: Xactimate1.msp, state: Absent, cached: None
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i105: Detected package: Xactimate1.msp target: {945774F5-9F8E-46F7-9F91-FEDD93FE9B93}, state: Absent
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i101: Detected package: Xactimate2.msp, state: Absent, cached: None
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i105: Detected package: Xactimate2.msp target: {945774F5-9F8E-46F7-9F91-FEDD93FE9B93}, state: Absent
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:47]i199: Detect complete, result: 0x0

Plan part (note that it adds rollback stuff for 1, not 2):

[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i200: Plan begin, 2 packages, action: Install
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i052: Condition 'xactimate1_Exists="True"' evaluates to true.
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleLog_Xactimate1.msp' to value 'C:\Users\i65780\AppData\Local\Temp\Xactimate_20160818144846_{945774F5-9F8E-46F7-9F91-FEDD93FE9B93}_000_Xactimate1.msp.log'
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleRollbackLog_Xactimate1.msp' to value 'C:\Users\i65780\AppData\Local\Temp\Xactimate_20160818144846_{945774F5-9F8E-46F7-9F91-FEDD93FE9B93}_000_Xactimate1.msp_rollback.log'
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i052: Condition 'xactimate2_Exists="True"' evaluates to true.
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i201: Planned package: Xactimate1.msp, state: Absent, default requested: Present, ba requested: Present, execute: Install, rollback: Uninstall, cache: Yes, uncache: Yes, dependency: Register
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i201: Planned package: Xactimate2.msp, state: Absent, default requested: Present, ba requested: Present, execute: Install, rollback: Uninstall, cache: Yes, uncache: Yes, dependency: Register
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i207: Planned related bundle: {acc3238e-f865-4bf7-894a-3ead7785406c}, type: Dependent, default requested: None, ba requested: None, execute: None, rollback: None, dependency: None
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:50]i299: Plan complete, result: 0x0

Apply part (Note it says applied 1, but nothing about 2, and it's 2 that was actually applied, 1 was never applied):

[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i000: Caching bundle from: 'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\{78E47AC2-0C23-4D74-ACF4-B7AD7B4FCAE8}\.be\XiWrapperPatch.exe' to: 'C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{9bb7b370-2135-4070-9ac0-5a7b599f1f89}\XiWrapperPatch.exe'
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i320: Registering bundle dependency provider: {9bb7b370-2135-4070-9ac0-5a7b599f1f89}, version: 29.0.0.2
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i371: Updating session, registration key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{9bb7b370-2135-4070-9ac0-5a7b599f1f89}, resume: Active, restart initiated: No, disable resume: No
[47AC:38C4][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i338: Acquiring package: Xactimate1.msp, payload: Xactimate1.msp, copy from: C:\Temp\29.0 (0.2)\Patches\Xactimate1.msp
[47AC:38C4][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleLastUsedSource' to value 'C:\Temp\29.0 (0.2)\Patches\'
[5A2C:1CF4][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i305: Verified acquired payload: Xactimate1.msp at path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\.unverified\Xactimate1.msp, moving to: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{015EF720-876E-4FE7-B718-C04C449C5B82}\Xactimate1.msp.
[47AC:38C4][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i338: Acquiring package: Xactimate2.msp, payload: Xactimate2.msp, copy from: C:\Temp\29.0 (0.2)\Patches\Xactimate2.msp
[5A2C:1CF4][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i305: Verified acquired payload: Xactimate2.msp at path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\.unverified\Xactimate2.msp, moving to: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{23179A16-37AC-49A1-8851-4AA442304A9A}\Xactimate2.msp.
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i323: Registering package dependency provider: {015EF720-876E-4FE7-B718-C04C449C5B82}, version: (null), package: Xactimate1.msp
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:52]i306: Applying package: Xactimate1.msp, target: {945774F5-9F8E-46F7-9F91-FEDD93FE9B93}, action: Install, path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{23179A16-37AC-49A1-8851-4AA442304A9A}\Xactimate2.msp;C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{015EF720-876E-4FE7-B718-C04C449C5B82}\Xactimate1.msp, arguments: '(null)'
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i319: Applied execute package: Xactimate1.msp, result: 0x0, restart: None
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i325: Registering dependency: {9bb7b370-2135-4070-9ac0-5a7b599f1f89} on package provider: {015EF720-876E-4FE7-B718-C04C449C5B82}, package: Xactimate1.msp
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i323: Registering package dependency provider: {23179A16-37AC-49A1-8851-4AA442304A9A}, version: (null), package: Xactimate2.msp
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i325: Registering dependency: {9bb7b370-2135-4070-9ac0-5a7b599f1f89} on package provider: {23179A16-37AC-49A1-8851-4AA442304A9A}, package: Xactimate2.msp
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i351: Removing cached package: Xactimate1.msp, from path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{015EF720-876E-4FE7-B718-C04C449C5B82}\
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i351: Removing cached package: Xactimate2.msp, from path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{23179A16-37AC-49A1-8851-4AA442304A9A}\
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i372: Session end, registration key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{9bb7b370-2135-4070-9ac0-5a7b599f1f89}, resume: ARP, restart: None, disable resume: No
[5A2C:7118][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i371: Updating session, registration key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{9bb7b370-2135-4070-9ac0-5a7b599f1f89}, resume: ARP, restart initiated: No, disable resume: No
[47AC:1270][2016-08-18T14:48:54]i399: Apply complete, result: 0x0, restart: None, ba requested restart:  No

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