[wix-users] Abnormal behavior when performing repair on Burn bootstrapper

Mayooran Macilamany mayooran99 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 22:48:31 PDT 2016


I have placed the code here, in case its inaccessible.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5UXJSql-HlJZ1hFNlNTc056Z0U

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Mayooran Macilamany <mayooran99 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have created a burn bootstrapper installer which has 2 MSIs. During the
> repair process I observed that both the MSIs behave in different manners.
> Below is what's happening.
>
>
>    - First MSI updates all files when a file is deleted. Therefore even
>    files edited after the installation are replaced with original files during
>    the repair process.
>    - Second MSI updates just the deleted files. Therefore even files that
>    are edited are left alone and are not replaced during repair process.
>
> I have attached both the wix files for reference. First MSI here refers to
> the TestUpdater.wxs while MosquittoInstaller.wxs is the second MSI. Why is
> this happening? I have specified key path to yes and both the wix files
> look almost the same. Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>


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