How to not install some files?

[Luc Coiffier]

Hi,

I want to *not* patch/install some files.
The condition is quite simple:
- if the file is already installed, patch it!
- if the file is not installed, do nothing.

My solution is to scan for these specific files in the pre-patch script, setting some variables and use these variables in the script condition for these files.

Is it possible to do something simpler?

Thanks in advance for your answer,

Luc

[Brett]

This is already how Visual Patch works by default. It will only patch a file that it finds that matches the ones that you speficied in previous versions. If it doesn't find a match (including the file is not found) then it will not install it. The only exception would be if the file was introduced in a new version and was not in the old distributions. In this case, you could pre-check for the existance of the file, assign it to a variable and then use it in the script condition on the file properties of the files.