Hi,
I have a custom action that would be called on install. In other words, it will only
get exectued if the condition "NOT Installed" is true. However, I noticed that if
I run an upgrade installation over an older version, that action doesn't get executed
at all. So I gussed maybe if I did the condition "REMOVE=''" (so it will be run as
long as it is not an uninstall) it would work, but it didn't.
Please someone give me some help. Thanks!
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Custom action not run during upgrade
Started by
quakey
, Nov 20 2004 04:21
4 replies to this topic
Posted 23 November 2004 - 01:11
QUOTE (mandy @ 2004-11-20 11:57) |
Try something like "REMOVE<>ALL". |
Hi,
Thank you again.
Unfortunately, I just realized that it was not the problem with the action not being called during upgrade. Rather, it is a problem because a custom action in the script it called again during upgrade at uninstall.
Basically my installer needs to register a DLL during install and unregister on uninstall. The action to unregister is only executed if REMOVE~="ALL". Now, during an upgrade, I noticed that Windows Installer first install the new version and THEN uninstall the old version. So the sequence is like:
Install new version and register DLL -> uninstall older version and unregister DLL
Because of that, the newly installed version won't work because the DLL is unregistered
at the end of the sequence!
Is there a way to only run the action that unregisters DLL during uninstall but NOT during an uninstall during an upgrade? Or maybe is there a way to tell Windows
Installer to uninstall the older version first and then install the new version?
Thanks!!
Posted 23 November 2004 - 10:00
You could move RemoveExistingProducts earlier in the sequence.
Stefan Krüger
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Posted 23 November 2004 - 23:46
QUOTE (Stefan Krueger @ 2004-11-23 10:00) |
You could move RemoveExistingProducts earlier in the sequence. |
Thanks! That did it.