How to remove any patch for my product

[rho]

How can I remove any patch which may be applied to my MSI, prior to applying a new patch? This should work as follows:

Scenario 1:
- MSI only installed
- MSP is executed and applies immediately


Scenario 2:
- MSI + MSP is installed
- a new MSP is executed, removes the old MSP and applies afterwards.


I use AI 11.0 Enterprise.

thanks in advance

[Daniel]

Hello,

In order to achieve what you want you should add all patches you need to be removed by your current patch in the current patch project -> "Patch Details" page -> "Patches to replace" section.

Also, if you want to automatically remove all patches applied to a product, then you can create your own custom action which will enumerate all installed patches and, then will uninstall them. Please take a look on the "MsiEnumPatches function" and "MSIPATCHREMOVE property" articles.

If you have any questions just let us know.

All the best,
Daniel

[rho]

Thanks for your reply.
Is there a way to add items to "Patches to replace" using the commandline interface?

[mihai.petcu]

Unfortunately no. Here are all possible CLI Patch Project Options.

All the best,
Mihai