[wix-users] MsiPackage/@PrereqSupportPackage

[Sean Hall]

You didn't provide a log, but it likely shows that the Burn engine detected
your Msi package as present, in which case the action would be to do
nothing since it's already installed.

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 08:01 Jacques Eloff via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I added this attribute to an MsiPackage. The package is first in my chain
> and when I decompile, I can see an entry for
> <MbaPrerequisiteSupportPackage> in BootstrapperApplicationData.xml
>
> The MsiPackage has no install condition and per the docs, this should cause
> the Prereq BA to plan the package:
>
> From the docs:
> When set to "yes", the Prereq BA will plan the package to be installed if
> its InstallCondition is "true" or empty
>
> The MSI itself only has one component - I'm trying to verify reboot
> behavior for a prereq in a custom BA prerequisites. However, I'm not seeing
> the prereq BA kicking in.
>
> It does for the NetFx45 prereq package, which make me wonder if I'm doing
> something silly that's causing it to skip over my package.
>
> I tried adding an InstallCondition, but that didn't seem to matter.
>
> Is there something obvious I'm just overlooking?
>
> Thanks,
> Jacques
>
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