You could be right.  I haven't played with setting "v" all of the time, so I'd 
have to create a few MSI files and do that.

Now that I finally did all the work to show why COM advertisement is bad and 
why ICE33 can be ignored 
(http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/03/12/RobMens-Recommendation-Do-not-advertise-COM-information-in-MSI.aspx)
 maybe I'll try this one... next week.

From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:58 PM
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: Rory Clark; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help with Upgrade scenarios.

I thought that the "v" will run from the source (the msi that you're currently 
trying to install) and recache the local copy.  When would it ask for the 
source media?
On 3/14/07, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

"v" means any time you do a repair operation with the MSI, that the original 
source media will be required.  Users *hate* that.



From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:23 PM
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: Rory Clark; 
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help with Upgrade scenarios.



Rob,
Is there a short answer as to why you're not supposed to set the REINSTALLMODE 
property to "vomus" and just leave it like that?

On 3/14/07, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

There is also the option of major upgrades that don't require command-line 
parameters at all.



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of Levi Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:13 PM

To: Rory Clark
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help with Upgrade scenarios.



What are you trying to achieve?  Are you trying to make it so you don't have to 
do that from the command-line?  One thing that I think that you can do is set a 
property in your wxs file that is:

<Property Id="REINSTALLMODE" Value="vomus" />

If you look at the MSDN documentation for the REINSTALLMODE property, you're 
not supposed to put the "v" in "vomus" on the initial installation, but I have 
never figured out why you're not supposed to do this.

On 3/14/07, Rory Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

That solved the short term problem, but isn't a long term solution.  Looks like 
I need to do a lot more research and a lot more reading.



Thanks!

Rory



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From: Levi Wilson [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:39 AM
To: Rory Clark
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help with Upgrade scenarios.

Does it complain about a different version of the product already being 
installed?  If so, you need to install the MSI via the msiexec.exe command like 
this:

msiexec.exe /I your_msi.msi REINSTALL=All REINSTALLMODE=vomus

On 3/14/07, Rory Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

In the project I'm working on, we've hit a pain point and we're not certain how 
to overcome it.  Right now if we want to do an upgrade, the user has to 
uninstall before installing the new version.



I am sure this has to be possible, I just need some pointers on the "how to" 
side of things.



Thanks!

Rory

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