Rather than not deploying the file you probably want to persist the properties that the GUI input is stored in.
-----Original Message----- From: Gary Gocek [mailto:g...@gocek.org] Sent: 30 September 2011 17:11 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Suppress redeployment of a file during repairs I deploy an unversioned file (with a CompanionFile setting) and modify the file during the install based on GUI entries. The repair case does not present the whole GUI, just the maintenance dialog, so during a repair, the file gets redeployed but the GUI entries are not available to re-modify it. I want to suppress the redeployment of that modified file during repairs. The user will not set REINSTALL on the command line, and 'light' warns me not to put REINSTALL in the property table. I tried the 'transitive' setting, but that didn't help (the file is always redeployed in the repair case). I cannot figure out how to avoid redeploying that file during repairs. I could write CAs to save the file and restore it after redeployment when repairing, but that seems hokey. Is there, or is there not, a standard way to NOT redeploy a file (or component or feature) during repairs, when the user double-clicks the MSI file (not command line) ? I see a related posts, but I'm just not seeing a straight answer. Thanks, Gary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
