[wix-users] uninstall fails after removing installer EXE at its original path

[Sean Hall]

> So, the ExePackage is in the cache, but it is cached inside A.exe rather
than as a standalone executable.

No, those are two separate things. As I pointed out in the log, the
ExePackage is not present in the cache.

"A.exe" is your bundle, and at build time has an attached container with
the ExePackage inside of it. When the bundle caches itself, that attached
container is stripped out in order to save disk space. At this time, there
is no way to get the bundle to cache the full bundle in the package cache.
You need to figure out why the ExePackage is not staying cached.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 7:41 AM Gubanov, Oleg (INT) <
Oleg.Gubanov at teledyne.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the detailed explanation, Sean.
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> Yes, LicenseManager is an ExePackage declared with attributes
> Compressed="yes" PerMachine="yes" Vital="yes".
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> The "Cache" attribute is not set explicitly, so its default value "yes"
> should be in effect.
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> The "Compressed" attribute is set to "yes" in order to embed that
> ExePackage into "A.exe".
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> So, the ExePackage is in the cache, but it is cached inside A.exe rather
> than as a standalone executable.
>
> For some reason, A.exe is unable to find the ExePackage compressed inside
> the same A.exe.
>
> Is there a way to tell A.exe to look for compressed packages inside itself?
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> *From:* Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 5, 2022 5:54 PM
> *To:* Gubanov, Oleg (INT) <Oleg.Gubanov at Teledyne.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] uninstall fails after removing installer EXE
> at its original path
>
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> Courriel Externe // External Email
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> You can see that the LicenseManager package is not cached here:
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> [1188:42F8][2022-02-01T09:46:19]i101: Detected package: LicenseManager,
> state: Present, cached: None
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> You can see that the LicenseManager was requested as ForceAbsent and
> planned to uninstall here:
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> [1188:42F8][2022-02-01T09:46:24]i201: Planned package: LicenseManager,
> state: Present, default requested: Absent, ba requested: ForceAbsent,
> execute: Uninstall, rollback: Install, cache: Yes, uncache: Yes,
> dependency: None
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> The engine thinks it needs to cache the package in order to uninstall,
> likely because it's an ExePackage. You must allow ExePackages to be cached
> to avoid this problem.
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