[virt-tools-list] virt-viewer MSI upgrade problems

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 12:52:23 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 07:08:36AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I'm testing the virt-viewer MSI installer for the the release of
> > virt-viewer I'm about todo.  If I install it on a clean system
> > then it works fine.  If I have virt-viewer 1.0 already intsalled
> > via the old released MSI, and attempt to upgrade to 2.0 with
> > the MSI installer, everything appears to work fine.....except
> > that the virt-viewer.exe and remote-viewer.exe binaries never
> > get created. They just disappear once upgrade is complete.
> > 
> > I know nothing about MSI installers, so don't even know where
> > to start debugging this...
> 
> When performing the install or update, you can get the log:
> msiexec /l*v install.log /i installer.msi
>  
> Iirc, this is likely related to components ID.
> 
> What version of wixl are you using? I will try to reproduce.

I built on Fedora 21 using

  msitools-0.93.75-2.fc21.x86_64

And was doing my testing on Windows Vista 32-bit. I don't have
any other versions of Windows handy right now.

Regards,
Daniel
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