[wix-users] Can a patch remove a feature added by a patch

[Nir Bar]

It works on all components.
You can set it per single component by setting Component/@UninstallWhenSuperseded="yes"



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Nir Bar

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---- On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:21:55 +0300  <mailto:duggal_sunny at yahoo.com> wrote ----


Nir, 
 
Does this property setting works at component level? Or feature level? 
 
Thx 
Manish 
 
Sent from my iPhone 
 
> On Jun 25, 2019, at 4:31 AM, Nir Bar via wix-users <mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote: 
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> Marking patch2 as superseding and setting MSIUNINSTALLSUPERSEDEDCOMPONENTS to 1 should do the trick. 
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> ---- On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:27:41 +0300 Mouni K <mailto:mouni.c2cbit at gmail.com> wrote ---- 
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> Ok. But what we are looking for is to clean up all the files/folders created by that patch1 using patch2. 
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> Does this sound feasible? 
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> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 4:01 PM Nir Bar via wix-users <mailto:mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote: 
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> If patch2 supersede patch1, then set property MSIUNINSTALLSUPERSEDEDCOMPONENTS to 1 to uninstall any component introduced in patch1 that was deleted in patch2. 
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> I'm not sure though whether or not the feature introduced in patch1 will be uninstalled or be marked as advertised. 
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> ---- On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:24:13 +0300 Mouni K via wix-users <mailto:mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote ---- 
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> Hi WixUsers, 
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> We have released a new feature with a patch say, patch1.msp. 
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> Now we want to remove the above feature using a subsequent patch2.msp. 
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> We want to remove the feature using a patch and not in a major 
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> Thanks for your help! 
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> Mounika. 
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