[wix-users] Bundled bundle

[Edwin Castro]

I've read you can use RelatedBundle with Action="Detect" to detect
installed bundles but I have never figured out how to use it effectively. I
think the problem was that I couldn't figure out how to set a
property/variable I could check in DetectCondition. I think I had to write
my own custom BA which I'm not prepared to do just yet.

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Parkes, Kevin via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> No, I don't have a DetectCondition.
>
> Presumably I can add some sort of search to detect bundle B using burn's
> record keeping details? What should I be searching for?
>
>
> From: Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com>
> Sent: 11 July 2018 16:08
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Parkes, Kevin <kevin.parkes at wacom.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Bundled bundle
>
> Does bundle A have a DetectCondition for the bundle B ExePackage?
>
> In general, bundle A cannot automatically detect whether ExePackages are
> installed. It certainly would be nice if we could author a property on
> ExePackage that tells burn to expect a burn bundle that it can check since
> it knows the record keeping details of burn bundles.
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 7:08 AM, Parkes, Kevin via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>>
> wrote:
> I have a bundle A which includes (as an ExePackage) bundle B and the
> behaviour on uninstall isn't what I'd anticipated.
>
> I find that uninstalling A doesn't uninstall B – is that usual? (And, if
> so, why?). The uninstall log for A shows "Detected package" for B to be
> "state: Absent"
>
> Further, a customer has reported if they uninstall A then uninstall B they
> sometimes get a prompt for the source folder for B. The prompt appears to
> be asking for the (now removed) copy of B cached by A. (I have been unable
> to reproduce this.)
>
>
>
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