[wix-users] Can we reset NeverOverwrite setting in a Patch.msp

[Mouni K]

Thankyou Murri, for your response. Is it this -
https://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/util/xmlconfig.html that
you were mentioning about?


On Fri, 10 Jan 2020, 20:21 Blair Murri via wix-users, <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> That should turn that bit off during your small update, but it will still
> be off in the next maintenance patch after this one.
>
> If you have been protecting those config files in order to prevent loss of
> customer settings, you may want to instead consider a custom action to
> rewrite your changes to that file. WiX provides a couple, one intended
> especially for config files (because it supports XML namespaces) that may
> do the trick.
>
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> Subject: [wix-users] Can we reset NeverOverwrite setting in a Patch.msp
>
> Hi WiX Users,
>
> Below is my question-
>
> We have certain web and app.config files which are set as
> NeverOverwrite='yes' in the Major Release say 17.0 MSI1 (Setup.msi), so
> that they wont be overwritten during subsequent maintenance patches.
>
>
> *<Component Id="ServiceConfig" Guid="xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx"
> NeverOverwrite="yes">            <File
> Name="Dom.Common.Attributes.dll.config" Id="fileB12346799C67BADJB3456VT688"
> KeyPath="yes" />*
>
> Now we have a change in those config files which need to be delivered in a
> Patch.msp.
> If we build a maintenance MSI2 (which has our latest changes to the config
> files) by setting the above component NeverOverwrite='no',will the diff
> Patch.msp generated out of MSI1 and MSI2 install/overwrite the older config
> files with the latest ones?
>
> Or should this only be done by a Major Upgrade MSI?
>
> Thanks,
> Mounika.
>
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