[wix-users] [Q] How to avoid rebooting caused by MsiPackage installation

[Rob Mensching]

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From: Hiroyuki Hayakawa <hihayak at microsoft.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 3:33 PM
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Subject: RE: [Q] How to avoid rebooting caused by MsiPackage installation

Thanks for the reply, Rob,
I'm relieved to know my understanding is right.
Also, I'll tell my customer to consider to use paid support provided by FIREGIANT.

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Best regards,
Hiroyuki Hayakawa

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Yes.

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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Hiroyuki Hayakawa via wix-users
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 3:03 AM
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Cc: Hiroyuki Hayakawa <hihayak at microsoft.com>
Subject: [wix-users] [Q] How to avoid rebooting caused by MsiPackage installation

Hi experts,

Could anyone check whether my understanding below is right?
As far as I looking at the source codes,

- Burn uses REBOOT=ReallySuppress option for installing MSI package.
- BA receives the result of MSI installation.
- BA evaluates whether it should reboot or not.
- We can pass /norestart as a command line option of BA so that BA doesn't prompts rebooting. (or rebooting silently when /q is specified)


I'm referring to the following document and source codes.
Sorry to ask a basic question but I'd appreciate it if anyone can take a look at this.
Thank you in advance.


https://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/msiproperty.html
Attributes
Name
Type
Description
Required
Name
String
The name of the MSI property to set. Burn controls the follow MSI properties so they cannot be set with MsiProperty: ACTION, ALLUSERS, REBOOT, REINSTALL, REINSTALLMODE Yes

// using REBOOT=ReallySuppress for MSI installation ?
(Wix4) https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix4/blob/e98c0c414e5853d961a73caea42ce695ac853812/src/burn/engine/msiengine.cpp#L1208
(Wix3) https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/bda1c281cb0349007d767d5404d6da87076d7d94/src/burn/engine/msiengine.cpp#L1197
        hr = StrAllocConcatSecure(&sczProperties, L" REBOOT=ReallySuppress", 0);

// Parsing and setting norestart option ?
(Wix4) https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix4/blob/e98c0c414e5853d961a73caea42ce695ac853812/src/burn/engine/core.cpp#L1111
(Wix3) https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/bda1c281cb0349007d767d5404d6da87076d7d94/src/burn/engine/core.cpp#L1119
            else if (CSTR_EQUAL == ::CompareStringW(LOCALE_INVARIANT, NORM_IGNORECASE, &argv[i][1], -1, L"norestart", -1))
            {
                pCommand->restart = BOOTSTRAPPER_RESTART_NEVER;
            }

// Evaluating whether we need to restart ?
(Wix4) https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix4/blob/3fe8fc012975a59d1350ac79d7db7897c77e0335/src/ext/BalExtension/wixstdba/WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.cpp#L914
(Wix3) https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/c65c6af91279e397f8b2a2d23d6995d43a74114e/src/ext/BalExtension/wixstdba/WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.cpp#L930
        m_fRestartRequired = (BOOTSTRAPPER_APPLY_RESTART_NONE != restart && BOOTSTRAPPER_RESTART_NEVER < m_command.restart);



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Best regards,
Hiroyuki Hayakawa


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