Hi James, all, Thank you for your feedback.
I did try around and I think there is a jpackage upgrade ID option now. --win-upgrade-uuid <string> — UUID associated with upgrades for this package In my case though, I think I run into some other issues. The InnoSetup installer seems not to provide any UUID. I believe I also found a related issue [1] that mentions UUID and InnoSetup but unfortunately that didn't help me either. Thanks again for any help, -- Daniel [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214564 On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 5:38 PM James Elliott <ja...@deepsymmetry.org> wrote: > Sorry, tried sending this with the incorrect email personality first. > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:32:14 +0100 Daniel Peintner < > daniel.peint...@gmail.com <mailto:daniel.peint...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > The only *working* solution we found was to *manually* uninstall the old > > application before starting msi installer. > > Any future update with msi installers work fine. But the first update > fails! > > I had been previously manually creating WiX installers (with the help of a > script built by one of my Windows-based users), and he discovered the same > problem when I migrated to jpackage. It turns out that the jpackage-built > WiX installers are missing an upgrade ID. I mentioned that on this list a > few weeks ago, but there was not any interest in investigating the issue. > > So now I use jpackage to just create the application image, and then > separately use WiX directly to create an installer that can properly > upgrade older installations. You can find the GitHub Actions workflow that > drives the process here: > > https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml#L84-L144 > < > https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml#L84-L144 > > > > The PowerShell script that runs jpackage and WiX is here: > > https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1 > < > https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1 > > > > And the WIX template it uses is here: > > https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI%20Template.wxs > < > https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI%20Template.wxs > > > > Hopefully this can help you, and perhaps jpackage can be updated to do > this on its own as well. > > Cheers, > > -James >
