Rob,

This solution would only work if there were 2 products correct? And how do I
repair B from bundle C?


So the /best/ way would be to install A separately correct?

Thanks!



Rob Mensching-7 wrote
> I expect A' is a major upgrade of A. There issue is that B knows nothing
> about A' (and C) and C doesn't have enough information to install A when
> it uninstalls A'.
> 
> In this scenario, a repair of B is necessary. Somewhere there was a
> feature for C to automatically repair B (if there was some bundle
> relationship between them), that I *think* is in v3.9. However, if you
> have no relationship between C and B there isn't anything Burn knows to
> fix it.
> 
> It's a known gap around a problem that is impossible solve correctly
> without significant sharing of information between potentially different
> lineages of WiX code... which we're unprepared to try to solve.
> 
> Workaround: Repair B.
> 
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> Is A' a major or minor upgrade of A?
> 
> Is the ProductCode the same or different for A' and A?  What is the
> difference in version numbers?
> 
> What does the bundle log say when it is selecting A for removal?
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> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn and chaining multiple MSIs and detecting
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> This is my scenario, I have 2 different bundles, B and C. They each have 2
> MSIs chained with a common MSI A or A' (a newer version of A). If I
> installed bundle B which has A then I install C which has A', I'm
> expecting B to install B and A, then C to install and upgrade A to A'. I
> am getting this as the result.
> 
> However, what I didn't expect was when I removed one product, lets say C,
> MSI A was removed breaking bundle B. Now with my understanding of
> component counting if I install Bundle B then Bundle C the component
> counts to all the components in A will be 2 and A will be upgraded to A'.
> Now when I uninstall either of the Bundles A got removed which is not what
> I'm expecting.
> 
> What's wrong in the this logic? I'm expecting MSI A to still be present
> with the remaining Bundle that I did not uninstall.
> 
> 
> What can I do to keep MSI A still installed with this type of deployment
> strategy?
> 
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