Re: [WiX-users] Best Practices - Using "*" for GUID automation

2010-06-29 Thread Cherney John-CJC030
I haven't had any problems with component ids set to "*". We keep the Upgrade id constant but vary everything else, including the version and the MSI name (which contains the version). Because of the changing version and the constant upgrade id (and the PREVIOUSFOUND property getting set in the Upg

Re: [WiX-users] TargetDir/SourceDir question

2009-10-13 Thread Cherney John-CJC030
o: And add the following line: Keep the rest of the code as supplied. -Original Message- From: Cherney John-CJC030 [mailto:john.cher...@motorola.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] TargetDir/Sourc

Re: [WiX-users] TargetDir/SourceDir question

2009-10-13 Thread Cherney John-CJC030
ronment variable %SystemDrive%. BTW, the "\" character after the "[%SystemDrive]" is significant. -Original Message- From: Cherney John-CJC030 [mailto:john.cher...@motorola.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-u

[WiX-users] TargetDir/SourceDir question

2009-10-13 Thread Cherney John-CJC030
I apologize if this question is answered in an FAQ or email somewhere. I didn't turn up much when I was searching this mailing list. I'm running into a problem with TARGETDIR or SourceDir. I always want my install to go onto C: (or the SystemDrive environment variable), but my installs are going