[wix-users] Need Advise on Upgrade

[Ven H]

Thanks Jim. The bootstrapper will have its own Upgrade and also the MSIs
within them will have their own upgrade code. So, when I try to upgrade the
Bootstrapper using the individual MSIs, technically it should be treated as
an Upgrade itself, right?



On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 8:23 PM Coryat, Jim via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> My experience is that you want to target the Upgrade code since that
> should be consistent between versions. Also, I have seen the bootstrapper
> have a separate ARP entry than that of the actual msi files within the
> bootstrapper which made it very confusing.  The msi files would have that
> upgrade code within them which would make them a valid target for a
> isolated installer (as long as it contained that upgrade code).  We ended
> up replacing the bootstrapper with a pure Wix installer that does not rely
> on .NET so we can make the .NET framework a component of the install
> instead of a prerequisite which necessitated the use of the bootstrapper.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Again, nothing beats creating a test environment and experimenting. 😊
>
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> We have existing Bootstrapper installers (exe) which bundle Prerequisites
> and custom MSIs. These MSIs handle a lot of functionality like Files,
> Windows Service Management, IIS Management, Database management etc. Now,
> we are planning to break these Bootstrapper installers and separate out
> functionality. But there are many customers who have these bootstrappers
> installed. Now, when we try to upgrade their system with the separate MSIs,
> will it work?
>
> Bootstrapper has it's own Product & Upgrade code and so also the MSIs.
> Also, for majority of the components, the Guid is auto generated. So, on
> systems which are installed with the bootstrapper, can I upgrade them with
> the separate MSIs? I tried once and observed that the files installed by
> bootstrapper seem to be getting removed. Please advise.
>
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