You can do something called Version lying. Basically you author your WXS to say the text file has a version number and now it'll always reinstall. There are some down sides though.
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Forcing-overwr ite-of-text-file-td711667.html ---------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Makhorin" <m...@gnu.org> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 8:41 AM To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] repair does not repair file that was changed On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 05:53 -0700, Christopher Painter wrote: > This is normal as the Windows Installer will generally attempt to preserve > user data during installation. See: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368599(v=vs.85).aspx and adjacent > pages. > Thank you very much for your quick reply. Is there any way to tell the installer to always install original files provided in .msi on repairing/reinstalling the product? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
