Hi All,
This is a very basic question regarding reinstalling a product after performing an upgrade using MSI.
1) i installed product A
2) then applied patch (small upgrade) to the product successfully.
3) then selected to Repair the product in Maintenance dialog from Add/Remove Programs. This causes all the original files of product A to be installed thus removing all the patched files.
Is this the desired behaviour that one should expect on choosing to reinstall the product from "Repair" option in Add/Remove Programs? If so, is there anyway i could instruct MSI to ignore all patch files (or) take the patch files from a specific location during reinstallation after performing an upgrade?
Thanks in advance.
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Repairing the install restores the original files
Started by
rbrinda
, Aug 20 2002 23:33
3 replies to this topic
Posted 21 August 2002 - 01:17
I missed to mention in my last post that i used RTPatch for creating this small upgrade patch. I tried to install the same patch that was developed using Installshield Developer and repairing the install after applying the patch works ie., repair did add/update all the files that were added by the patch.
Thanks.
Thanks.
-rb
Posted 21 August 2002 - 20:56
Normal behaviour would be that the patch is re-applied. If this doesn't work for you, either the version relationsship you specifed is wrong, or there's something wrong with the patch you created. Did you contact PocketSoft support - this looks like a RTPatch issue.
Stefan Krüger
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Posted 21 August 2002 - 22:59
Thanks for your reply, Stefan. I called pocketsoft for assistance and they said they will debug with my setup files and investigate whats wrong. I will update this newsgroup as soon as i hear from them. I also heard that the next version of RTPatch will provide full MSI support (current version provides only partial support ie., adding new components via RTPatch is not possible).
Thanks.
Thanks.
-rb