1. MspPackage Element
 
2. I'm not sure if it's possible but it's not at all recommended. The bundle 
caches the MSI and the MSI doesn't have any easy way to manage that cache. Burn 
is designed to manage the cache, the lifetime of all products installed using 
its engine, etc. You could run into cases of unexpected reinstall of MSIs that 
the user had previously uninstalled, etc.
 
> From: gef...@microsoft.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:04:49 +0000
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches
> 
> 1.  Is there any info online that describes how to do "patch in a bundle"?  I 
> found some info online, but not very complete.  If patch is inside a bundle, 
> then the patch would be delivered as an .exe file?  Not sure if that satisfy 
> our requirements.
> 
> 2.  One thoughts going around is whether we could apply ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT 
> property to the bootstrapper, and not the MSI.  Is it possible to block the 
> bootstrapper from showing up in the Add/Remove Program?  Would that cause 
> problems if one installs from bootrapper, and uninstalls from MSI entry in 
> ARP?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 1:13 PM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches
> 
> Ship the patch in a Bundle.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, George Fleming <gef...@microsoft.com>wrote:
> 
> > I have two applications, a MSI and a bootstrapper/UI that invokes the MSI.
> >  To prevent double ARP entries, we set the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property 
> > in the bootstrapper <bundle>.
> >
> > This works fine, except when we apply a patch.  Because the MSI is 
> > blocked, so is its patch.  We cannot see it, and therefore cannot 
> > uninstall the patch.
> >
> > If I force it to show up in ARP by adding registry entries, a patch 
> > that is applied to a MSI install (not through bootstrapper) now shows 
> > double patch entries in the ARP.
> >
> > What is correct way to handle this problem?  I'm using Wix 3.6.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > George
> >
> >
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