ComponentGroupRef in FeatureRef

[jjolidon]

Hi everyone,

Before posting a bug I'd like to check if maybe I'm doing something wrong:

I have an installer project with a feature and a component group. For good reasons I can't modify the feature to reference directly the component group, so what I do is that I include a ComponentGroupRef in a FeatureRef in a fragment, i.e.

<Fragment>
  <ComponentGroup Id="MyComponentGroup"><!-- Content here --></ComponentGroup>
  <FeatureRef Id="MyFeature">
    <ComponentGroupRef Id="MyComponentGroup" />
  </FeatureRef>
</Fragment>

That doesn't seem to work with Wix 5. The fragment is listed in the MSBuild compile targets and the installer build succeeds, but the content in the component group is not included at all in the resulting installer.

How would I proceed troubleshooting that? I've tried putting the FeatureRef in a different file than the ComponentGroup, and I've tried getting more detailed wix output, with inconclusive results so far.

Thanks in advance!