[wix-users] Burn error with large MSI product versions

[Blair Murri]

There's an ICE error/test for invalid version values. While there may be a way to transform an invalid version value into a testable one, since the way that the versions are stored/compared by the Windows Installer APIs isn't documented, and since the method of storage has changed during the evolution of MSI/Windows, it would be a fools errand to even try.



If you have control over the other products’ packages then I recommend you fix their “package product” versions to conform. If you really don't have to care what the version is of the other products are, remove the version string. If you don't need to know about the other product in the BA, don't add it directly to the MSI’s Upgrade table (so that the BA doesn't even see it), instead adding it to that table at runtime. If you need to know the specific version in the BA, again don't put it directly in the MSI’s Upgrade table, instead write code directly in the BA (I recommend storing the data in a custom table in the BA) to enumerate by upgrade code and parse/compare version codes yourself based on whatever intent you can determine from whomever generated the invalid version strings.



Good luck to you. Let me know if I can help.



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From: Rob Mensching<mailto:rob at firegiant.com>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Burn error with large MSI product versions



The other package's version is not just too large, it's completely invalid: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370859(v=vs.85).aspx

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Joel Budreau
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:13 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] Burn error with large MSI product versions

I have an MSI that I want to package into a burn bootstrapper. My MSI has
UpgradeCode references to a different product. I only want to detect if the
other product is installed or not. When I run my custom BA I see the
following log message:

Error 0x800200a: Failed to convert version: 3.6.0.4208657 to DWORD64 for
ProductCode: ...
Detect failed for package: <my package> ...

So, it looks like the detect phase of my new bootstrapper will fail because
some other product is using a build number that's too large.

What's the recommended workaround here? Use some other mechanism besides
the Upgrade table to detect if the other product is installed?

Thanks,
Joel

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