Software: InstallShield for Windows Installer
Version: 2.00
Maintenance Release: none
Serial Number: (deleted by group Administrator)
Product Type: Full
Design/Build System Information:
OS: Windows 2000
Machine Type: workstation
Chip Type: intel
Target System Information:
OS: Windows 2000
Description:
Technical Component: none
Issue's Area of Occurance: File transfer
NT Only - Administrative Priviledges to Installation Location: yes
Reproducable on All Machines: yes
Problem:
Steps to Reproduce: When doing a minor upgrade, only some of the files in the distribution were overwritten with the new versions of the files even though I requested to overwrite all files (REINSTALLMODE=vamus).
I used Orca to look at the two MSI packages and noticed that for the files that WERE updated the corresponding record of the File Table had all the same data (except for the version number of course). But, for the files that were NOT updated, the corresponding File Table records had different sequence numbers. The number in the v7 package is one greater than the number in the v6 package.
I did add one file to the distribution between v6 and v7. Did adding this file cause the sequence numbers to change for some of the files? Did the sequence number change cause the upgrade to not work? Is there any way to add files between releases and still do a minor upgrade?