<div dir="ltr"><div>> Are you certain that /forceinstall is working as designed?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm absolutely NOT certain that /forceinstall is working as you assumed from the documentation. I just wanted to say that I would have assumed what you assumed, had I tried to do what you are trying to do. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>> I'm resistant to making another revision to force an upgrade, as often the changes are quite small and frequent</div><div><br></div><div>Everyone should do what works for them, but frequent small changes are exactly what makes it cumbersome to keep track of, and that's where for me versions come in handy. I frequently define a version number as a variable in packages and use them in the package revision and install string.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><package id="FFox_x86ESR" revision="%version%.%pkg-revision%" name="Mozilla Firefox ESR x86" reboot="false" priority="10"><br> <variable name="version" value="68.11.0" /> <br> <variable name="pkg-revision" value="1" /> <br>...<br> <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\FFox\Firefox Setup %version%esr.exe" -ms' /><br>'''<br></package></span></div><div><br></div><div>This way I can prepare the updated version as an installer file or directory with a new version number and once I'm ready to deploy I just update the version number in the package. For quick and dirty hacks like little scripts I just use the version scheme YYMMDD e.e. 200803 for today's date. I think this is how wpkg is meant to work and in this case I'm certain that it works as expected.</div><div><br></div><div>good luck</div><div><br></div><div>Bernhard<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am So., 2. Aug. 2020 um 23:57 Uhr schrieb Luke Whitehorn <<a href="mailto:luke.whitehorn@gmail.com">luke.whitehorn@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Bernhard,<div>I'm resistant to making another revision to force an upgrade, as often the changes are quite small and frequent - it's a Python library and supporting files that I'm deploying. </div><div>I'd rather not use execute="always", as I'd prefer to keep updates of this controlled by me.</div><div><br></div><div>Are you certain that /forceinstall is working as designed? From the docs on that page it states for /forceinstall: '<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The "install" command will be run, even if "check" conditions are met.'</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The install command is simply not being run :/</span></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-1142062398511601272DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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