Change your upgrade order (install upgrade, then remove old), but that requires that you carefully follow the component rules.
The only other thing I can think of (if you really can't change the upgrade operation order) is this: you may try forcing the level of the feature containing your non-upgrading component to 0 during removals that happen due to upgrades. But I don't know under what circumstances that might break. -----Original Message----- From: gapearce [mailto:mr_gapea...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:17 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] prevent component removal on major upgrade Hi, I have 3 components that get installed initially. But when I want to upgrade, I'd like to leave one component alone - it never needs to be upgraded. But I do want to upgrade the other two components. I already can do a successful upgrade, but that removes all of the files first, then re-installs new stuff. I'd like to do this still, except for the one component that is ok to stay. I know how to *not* re-install this component - I change the "level' on the feature to zero so it won't get re-installed, and the condition for this looks like the following: <Condition Level="0">OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED</Condition> But I'd like to prevent this one special component from getting deleted on the Upgrade. Any advice would be greatly appreciated... Greg -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/prevent-compon ent-removal-on-major-upgrade-tp5600477p5600477.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
