No. I have a custom action in my installshield installer that sets a registry value before AppSearch. Then there are registrysearch actions in my wix merge modules, which get executed during appsearch. There are two of these registry searches; one works always because it is there before our installer is executed. The other is there to indicate that an installer is running which wishes to override the merge module target.
The reason I need to do this is that I have tried umpteen ways to override the install location in the wix module but nothing works. Changing destination in installshield doesn't work because our merge modules are written to use the first registry search to set the install location. That registry search is fine for most of our apps that use the merge modules except for one. I need to override for that one without messing up the compatibility for all the other apps' installers. From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:46 PM To: Vanderputten, Jennifer; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix merge module troubles Are you saying that you have a custom action that sets a registry value and then you use AppSearch to read the registry value in a custom action? --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog<http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/> Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Here's> --- On Wed, 4/27/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix merge module troubles To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 2:26 PM I know why this is happening now - not sure how to fix it. The failed machines are multi-core, so the threads are running in parallel. The custom action is being run in a separate thread so the key is not ready before the merge module does its registrysearch. The succeeding machines are single-core so everything is truly synchronous. The custom action is set to "synchronous, check exit code", but the behavior is not what I would expect of a synchronous setting. AppSearch is happening simultaneously, I want AppSearch to wait for my custom action (that is writing the reg entry) to finish. OK, how do I do that? (i m noob) --Jen From: Vanderputten, Jennifer Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:14 PM To: '[email protected]<http://us.mc1117.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>' Subject: Wix merge module troubles I'm setting two properties using two different registry searches. One property consistently sets as expected; the other does not. I have confirmed in every install attempt that the registry key is indeed there, set as expected. With full logging passed into the msi, I see the following on the failed systems: AppSearch: Property: ACUOVERRIDEDIR.F7F37B15_051C_4BEC_B4AB_D15299E5D4C8, Signature: ACUOverrideDir.F7F37B15_051C_4BEC_B4AB_D15299E5D4C8 MSI (c) (90:54) [12:00:59:756]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Signature 3: -2147287038 AppSearch: Property: LACFEATUREDIR.F7F37B15_051C_4BEC_B4AB_D15299E5D4C8, Signature: EmcVsiVSphere4LacDir.F7F37B15_051C_4BEC_B4AB_D15299E5D4C8 MSI (c) (90:54) [12:00:59:756]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Signature 3: -2147287038 MSI (c) (90:54) [12:00:59:756]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding LACFEATUREDIR.F7F37B15_051C_4BEC_B4AB_D15299E5D4C8 property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files\EMC\Virtual Storage Integrator\vSphere4\LAC\'. As expected, when I don't see "PROPERTY CHANGE" for the ACUOVERRIDEDIR, ACUOVERRIDEDIR is not being set, despite the registry key being there. Any insights? Thanks, Jen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected]<http://us.mc1117.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
