ExePackage@InstallCondition - WixBundleAction

[joeloff]

I have an EXE package that I only want to run during uninstall. In v3, I authored the package with

  DetectCondition="WixBundleAction >= 3"
  UninstallCondition = WixBundleAction >= 4"

This allows the EXE to be detected as installed during an install (otherwise it's detected as uninstallable and the uninstall command is executed during install).

With v5.0.2 I received this error when building: ExePackage/@DetectCondition contains the built-in Variable 'WixBundleAction', which is not available when it is evaluated. (Unavailable Variables are: 'WixBundleAction'.). Rewrite the condition to avoid Variables that are never valid during its evaluation

Have the evaluation changed in v5? What I originally wanted was something similar to the UpgradingProductCode property you have available in MSIs so you can condition actions to only run on uninstall, but not uninstalls as part of an upgrade. I wasn't able to find the equivalent of the bundle and the WixBundleAction solution was the best I could come up with at the time.

Aren't the package conditions evaluated during the plan / apply phases, at which point the bundle action should be resolved?

[barnson]

Not DetectCondition---it's needed to complete Detect. wix\WixToolset.Core\ExtensibilityServices\BundleValidator.cs