[wix-users] WiX Patch Bundle Question

[Christopher Painter]

Thanks for indicating that it *should* work.  It gave me an idea on what might be wrong and give it one more try.  I hadn't set the Cached attribute on the MsiPackage elements.  I'm guessing if it's not cached it can't repair the bundle and it doesn't tell you that either.   Adding the attribute caused the patch removal to reinstall the original packages.

Thanks a bundle!   (I'm sorry, had to do it.)

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of robert_yang at agilent.com
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:31 PM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: Re: [wix-users] WiX Patch Bundle Question

"Pardon if this is a simple question, I haven't done much with Burn.

Hunting around the internet (and getting help from a 2013 version of myself... don't even remember asking that question LOL )  I managed to put together a v1.0 bundle and a v1.1 patch bundle prototype where the patch bundle can't be installed unless the base bundle is installed.  Pretty good so far except I can't figure out a few issues:


1)      Removing the v1.1 patch bundle doesn't revert MsiPackage A from 1.1 back to 1.0.  Running repair on the 1.0 bundle doesn't downgrade the package to 1.0 either.   How should I approach this?"

Hmm, we don't have this problem.  Perhaps post the code of your patch bundle ?  Uninstalling a patch bundle "should" result in the patch being removed and the original bundle being repaired.  I say "should" because the addition of the second step is the way it has worked since 3.9.  I had to write a custom BA (really just the std BA with a couple hacks) to get the 3.8 behavior back.

Our patches are basically .msp's with a bundle.

-Rob


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