[cvsnt] Re: Problem with post install custom action

Casey Schmit cschmit at winternals.com
Fri Apr 8 23:04:15 BST 2005


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So it is a Wix install... :)  I hadn't looked.  I have a friend who has done 
quite a bit with WIX and custom actions and I'll see if he has any ideas. 
I'll also take a look and post back if I see what a possible solution is.

Thanks for looking at this.

Casey



"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message 
news:d36af1$hac$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Casey Schmit wrote:
>> custom action.  If you change it to a type 18 custom action, it uses the 
>> postinst.exe installed in the <program files>\CVSNT directory and works 
>> as expected.  (you also have to change the source to postinst.exe from 
>> Postinst.exe).  The log items in my message actually show this.
>
> I'm not sure if Wix can override types like this (the documentation isn't 
> that great on custom actions).  I'll have a look at it though.
>
>
> Tony 





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