[jpackage] Issue with upgrading from javapackager to jpackage on Windows

[Daniel Peintner]

Hi James, all,

Thank you for your feedback.

I did try around and I think there is a jpackage upgrade ID option now.

--win-upgrade-uuid <string> — UUID associated with upgrades for this package

In my case though, I think I run into some other issues. The InnoSetup
installer seems not to provide any UUID.

I believe I also found a related issue [1] that mentions UUID and InnoSetup
but unfortunately that didn't help me either.

Thanks again for any help,

-- Daniel

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214564



On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 5:38 PM James Elliott <james at deepsymmetry.org>
wrote:

> Sorry, tried sending this with the incorrect email personality first.
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:32:14 +0100 Daniel Peintner <
> daniel.peintner at gmail.com <mailto:daniel.peintner at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > The only *working* solution we found was to *manually* uninstall the old
> > application before starting msi installer.
> > Any future update with msi installers work fine. But the first update
> fails!
>
> I had been previously manually creating WiX installers (with the help of a
> script built by one of my Windows-based users), and he discovered the same
> problem when I migrated to jpackage. It turns out that the jpackage-built
> WiX installers are missing an upgrade ID. I mentioned that on this list a
> few weeks ago, but there was not any interest in investigating the issue.
>
> So now I use jpackage to just create the application image, and then
> separately use WiX directly to create an installer that can properly
> upgrade older installations. You can find the GitHub Actions workflow that
> drives the process here:
>
> https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml#L84-L144
> <
> https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/workflows/uberjar.yml#L84-L144
> >
>
> The PowerShell script that runs jpackage and WiX is here:
>
> https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1
> <
> https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/scripts/build_msi.ps1
> >
>
> And the WIX template it uses is here:
>
> https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI%20Template.wxs
> <
> https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger/blob/master/.github/resources/MSI%20Template.wxs
> >
>
> Hopefully this can help you, and perhaps jpackage can be updated to do
> this on its own as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
>         -James
>