[wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

Tue Mar 14 02:36:50 PDT 2017

Thanks Tyler.

Dave's method did work. I can patch and it shows and I can rollback.

Problem now is 2 entries in the ARP list. One from the Burn and one from the MSI.

So much fun.  :)

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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Tyler Gustafson <tgustafson at solacom.com>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 12:10:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

Dave is more likely to be on the right track here but what I want to verify is with the bundle that you're installing.

The bundle should include msi 6.15.0
The bundle should NOT include msi 6.15.1 since you will be relying on your msp patch to get you there.

I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something silly like that where after you've installed your bundle, you're actually already at 6.15.1 and so running your 6.15.1 patch isn't actually doing anything.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of David Watson
Sent: March-13-17 12:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

Many apologies 😊, it was a lazy description on my part.

When you install from a bundle you have the option to hide or show each MSI individually in Add Remove Programs (ARP). If the msi is registered there any applied patches appear in the (show updates) section.

The default option for a bundle is to hide the MSIs - See @Visible in the MSIPackage element. http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/msipackage.html

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Steve De George
Sent: 13 March 2017 16:29
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

Dave.

I have 15 years INNO experience and 30 days wix.

"Are you hiding the MSI entry in ARP and just relying on the bundle entry"

I have no idea what that means. End of my day but if you could point me in the right direction?

Tyler

"So just to clarify, you had an msi and you could rev the version then create a patch (msp). When you installed the msi and then applied the msp you could see the msp in the installed updates and uninstall it to drop your product back down to the base version.
Next you bundled your msi into a bootstrapper.
Now when you install the bundle and then run the patch against it, it updates but you don't see the patch in the installed updates screen?"

This is correct.

"If that is all correct, and those are the only changes you made, are you including the base version of the msi in your bundle or are you using the updated version? You want to be using the base version only since having the updated version in there will bring you right to the updated version and you won't end up applying a "patch"."

A little confused here. This is the script I use to create the patch.

Note: baseline\tmp\i2xInstallerQB.wixpdb is the original MSI, lets call it 6.15.0 with no changes.

Note: patched_ver\tmp\i2xInstallerQB.wixpdb is the MSI with changes - 6.15.1

No Burn here at all. Just the MSI's

"%WIX%bin\torch.exe" -p -xi "baseline\tmp\i2xInstallerQB.wixpdb" "patched_ver\tmp\i2xInstallerQB.wixpdb" -out Patch.wixmst "%WIX%bin\candle.exe" Patch.wxs "%WIX%bin\light.exe" Patch.wixobj -out Patch.wixmsp "%WIX%bin\pyro.exe" Patch.wixmsp -out Patch.msp -t RTM Patch.wixmst

This is going to end up being something stupid. LOL

Thanks all.

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Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 8:03:45 AM
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Are you hiding the MSI entry in ARP and just relying on the bundle entry?

If so the update will not be visible, the patch is updating the registration for the updated MSI not for the bundle.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Gustafson
Sent: 13 March 2017 14:18
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

So just to clarify, you had an msi and you could rev the version then create a patch (msp). When you installed the msi and then applied the msp you could see the msp in the installed updates and uninstall it to drop your product back down to the base version.
Next you bundled your msi into a bootstrapper.
Now when you install the bundle and then run the patch against it, it updates but you don't see the patch in the installed updates screen?

If that is all correct, and those are the only changes you made, are you including the base version of the msi in your bundle or are you using the updated version? You want to be using the base version only since having the updated version in there will bring you right to the updated version and you won't end up applying a "patch".

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Steve De George
Sent: March-13-17 5:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

The MSI is in the bootstrapper.

I then just use the admin command line to install the patch. msiexec /p Patch.msp /passive

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Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 6:40:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

Are you using an msp or an msi inside your bootstrapper? As I understand it, only upgrades applied with msp show up in the view installed updates screen.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Steve De George
Sent: March-09-17 9:37 AM
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Subject: [wix-users] Patch not showing up in the 'View Installed updates' with Burn

Hi all.

I have an existing MSI that was patching and rolling back fine. I have started a new burn project and added my MSI and all is well except they do not show in 'View Installed updates' on the Program and Features screen. Patching does work though.

I did notice there was an UpgradeCode in the Bundle.wxs. How does that effect upgrade codes in other products.

My patches are based off of the MSI and not the final bootstrapper. I think that is right or as I am writing this...  do I have to patch against the Bootstrapper?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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