This isn't a WiX problem. It's MSI, and there's nothing you can really do
about it in the setup authoring, as far as I know. The only way I'm aware
of to change it is to use MSIEXEC command line parameters to tell MSI to
overwrite changed files.
You should really look into using patches or MSI-supported techniques for
these "quick fixes".
Kelly
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We are using Wix to install our (Java) application. Updating works fine,
even launched application (and service) are handled gracefully.
For providing users who report bugs a very quick bug-fix build we offer a
plain zip file containing just the replaced few binary (.jar) files which
they can replace themself in the installed application (we don't want to
create a separate installer for several reasons). Unfortunately, if such
binaries are replaced, the official next update Wix-based release (full
bundle which will not require a previous installation) will NOT replace
them
with the new files. It looks like Wix automatically detects that the files
were changed (by content or file time?) and then rejects to remove them
when
updating or uninstalling.
What is the easiest way to tell Wix to uninstall/update the replaced
files, too?
Thanks in advance,
Tom
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