RE: [WiX-users] Repair from Add or Remove Programs

[Rob M. <ro...@us...>]

Get a verbose log file for your repair (the logging registry key documented
in the MSI SDK works well).  

 

In that log file you should see a message that explains why the Windows
Installer thought it needed the original source media.  Usually, because it
suspected one of your files was broken and needed repair (you're not one of
those people putting bogus file versions in the File table are you?
<smile/>).

 

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From: wix...@li...
[mailto:wix...@li...] On Behalf Of Brian Simoneau
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:47 PM
To: wix...@li...
Subject: [WiX-users] Repair from Add or Remove Programs

 

After I have installed my product, I look at its entry in Add or Remove
Programs.  From here I can attempt to Repair the product.  However, during
the repair a message comes up asking me for the original msi.  I thought
that Add or Remove Programs used a cached version of the msi.  The user is
doesn't have access to the original msi since our installer wraps the msi in
a bootstrapper so that the appropriate command line arguments can be passed
to msiexec.  Is this the expected behavior for repair?  Note that the same
thing happens if trying to add a new feature to the product, but everything
works fine during uninstall or when removing features from the product.

 

Brian Simoneau

Software Developer

Freedom Scientific