FYI: I just tested this and it does the upgrade no problem.
Background: My bundle is composed of a per user MSI which installs my
application and three per machine MSIs which installs two drivers and a
certificate to prevent the "do you want to allow this driver from unknown
company " popup.
I do have a problem where multiple users install the bundle. If one user goes
to uninstall it, the bundle uninstalls the per machine MSIs for all users. I
found Bug 3540 | Error when upgrading a bundle with mixed privilege packages
that said this is by design:
" Due to cross-scope scenarios that could be broken - like installing
per-macine packages like VC runtime or .NET followed by per-user packages for
your apps - we've had to limit the ref-counting feature to a single scope.
I.e., if the bundle is a per-machine scope (all per-machine packages or a
per-user scope, it will work. But if there is even one per-user package - even
if you're not installing it - only per-user packages will be able to use the
ref-counting scenario. This at least enables the "runtime scenarios" mentioned
above."
I could see how .net or VC runtime could mess up ref counting. Would it be a
good feature request to default to no ref-counting for per machine packages and
allow the user to specify which per machine packages would get reference
counting? And/or don't do ref counting on permanent bundles but do so on all
other per machine bundles? I imagine .net and VC runtime would be marked as
permanent.
I don't get the error listed in the bug though so that's good. One solution is
I could mark the driver installers permanent and let the user uninstall them
manually.
Wes
-----Original Message-----
From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca]
Sent: October-31-13 10:07 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs
Will have to do a test...
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: October-31-13 12:42 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs
I honestly don't remember...
-----Original Message-----
From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:22 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs
Thanks. That makes sense. I'm installing drivers so need to have both.
Can a per-user bundle upgrade or uninstall a per-machine bundle via
relatedbundle element's attribute Action set to Upgrade? I have a per-machine
bundle now. Thinking of switching my app to per-user.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: October-30-13 4:12 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs
Yes.
Note: the presence of a per-user package makes the bundle per-user.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:10 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs
Hi, Can burn handle a mix of per-machine and per-user MSI packages? I thought
I read somewhere it can't but can't find it.
Wes
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com]
Sent: August-23-13 3:43 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Fallback when not getting admin rights
I forget what the DropBox install experience was, but when I look at those
shell extensions they are all in HKCU, so they are per-user and not per-system.
That might work for you too.
Phil Wilson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Trond Andersen <trond.ander...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I have an application which uses Shell extensions to add a menu in
> Windows Explorer, however I would like the installer to have a
> fallback if the user is not able to give the installer admin rights in
> which the user can access the functionality without using
> menus/toolbar in Windows Explorer. The Dropbox installer does the same thing.
>
> Does anyone have an example or other resources which could help me
> getting this working.
>
> For information - I'm using WIX 3.7 and Burn bootstrapper. Is this
> something the bootstrapper should handle? Will the Burn bootstrapper
> be able to do this or do I have to use a different bootstrapper/modify Burn?
>
>
> --
> Trond
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