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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am setting-up WPKG for our company and have cases where I have empty remove commands which seems to be a problem when I remove packages as it will think the uninstall failed when doing the install checks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As I saw in an old thread having empty remove commands should allow to remove a package without uninstalling the software, I guess the install check on remove is something new and it is a good thing but I don’t know how
to handle these 2 cases :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1°) Software that depends on Microsoft updates/software :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our ERP software (Dynamics AX 2009) needs .NET Framework so I created (copied) a package for it and had the Dynamics AX package depend on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But in case I remove the Dynamics AX package from the profile, I would rather not have .NET Framework uninstalled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I guess for this particular case I could just put it in a “Base” profile and have it apply to all computers or is there another way ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2°) Dynamics AX 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dynamics AX 2009 has a base installation and then you have to apply updates on each computer (no slipstream) and those updates might be individual hotfixes or a cumulative service pack/rollup packages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So right now we have to install Release 1/RTM, then SP1, then SP1 Rollup 7 but could later have to add a hotfix, but maybe even later it will be replaced by a service pack 2 or another rollup that has to be applied to
SP1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So I created packages for the base install and another one for each update as it would allow to check the version and only apply the necessary patches to a not up-to-date computer (although whenever we update, we make
sure to update all the computers) and not reapply patches that were already installed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In my profile I actually apply only the last update which depends on the previous update, which depends on the base package (which depends on .net).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But of course, you can’t uninstall the updates, if you uninstall, you uninstall the whole software, so I have the remove commands in the base package and no remove commands in the update packages (as I said, we might
have the case that an update is not necessary anymore because it’s replaced by a service pack or rollup, it has happened before so I want to be ready for it).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I thought it all made sense but my problem is when I remove the package from the profile, it will try to uninstall the last update and fail as the install checks succeed and stop proceeding to any further uninstall as
it couldn’t uninstall the dependent package.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the end, I think there should be an option to remove a package without uninstalling the software, or is there already ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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