[wix-users] Is there a way to allow major upgrade if version is the same but product code is different?

[John Cooper]

Read the documentation for the MajorUpgrade element and the AllowSameVersionUpgrades attribute.

There is very little benefit to hand-authoring the upgrade tables like you are doing.

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I also tried this which had the same result:

<Upgrade Id="$(var.UpgradeCode)">
  <UpgradeVersion Maximum="$(var.ProductVersion)" IncludeMaximum="yes"
Property="OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED" />
  <UpgradeVersion Minimum="$(var.ProductVersion)" IncludeMinimum="no"
OnlyDetect="yes" Property="NEWERVERSIONDETECTED" /> </Upgrade> <CustomActionRef Id="WixExitEarlyWithSuccess"/>

<InstallExecuteSequence>
  <RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallValidate" /> </InstallExecuteSequence>

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Joseph Musser <me at jnm2.com> wrote:

> I'm randomizing the product ID with each build ("*") but I want to 
> leave the revision at 0. We may do multiple builds internally but when 
> we publish to the client the revision number should be 0.
>
> AllowSameVersionUpgrades="yes" seems like it was designed for this, 
> but it does not work and two instances end up in ARP. I assume this is 
> because the version is the same.
>
> Is there anything I can do to augment this so that a major upgrade 
> happens without changing the version?
>
>
>

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