Re: [WiX-users] Prevent package signature + hash checks?

2013-05-22 Thread stewarth
mmm - i believe i have misunderstood what is happening. I have tried installing my bundle with MsiPackage 'A' & 3 different versions of ExePackage 'B' 2 were successfull - indicating that i am wrong in believing that the version has to be the same as was there when the bundle was built. 1 failed

[WiX-users] Prevent package signature + hash checks?

2013-05-22 Thread stewarth
I have a bundle that installs msi 'A' plus support application 'B' 'A' is an MsiPackage 'B' is an ExePackage 'B' is not compressed - i.e. external payload My problem is that if application 'B' is updated after i release my bundle, then that new version is just dropped onto the distribution DVD wi

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

2013-02-27 Thread stewarth
Rob, I wasn't in any way implying that WiX was doing anything wrong - I agree that it is Trend that are causing this. All i meant was i didnt know if 3.7 would be doing something sublty different that wouldnt trigger the 'malware' alert. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://wind

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

2013-02-27 Thread stewarth
I'm not sure whether submitting our product to Trend would have any effect, since it is /behaviour/ that is triggering the alert, not any 'patterns' in the setup code itself (if that makes sense)? I can try this though. Presumably it is the extracted burn setup.exe that needs to be sent, since th

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Bootstrapper application installation

2013-02-26 Thread stewarth
We had (and still have) issues with 3.6 & Trend Officescan. It objects to the way that the burn setup.exe is extracted into temp & then writes to the RunOnce registry key. OfficeScan sees this as malware behaviour & blocks it. Even though everything is signed. If you havent signed everything th

[WiX-users] Using Condition Level="0" results in files being left behind after upgrade then uninstall.

2013-02-26 Thread stewarth
For the 1st release of an installer I used this to conditionally install a component: i.e. only install ProductFeatures.2 if INSTALL_TYPE = 2 INSTALL_TYPE is passed in from command line / burn MsiProperty. It worked fine & on uninstall everything gets removed. Great. But now when v2 went ou

[WiX-users] Resuming with saved settings after re-boot (WiX3.6 / Burn)

2012-09-03 Thread stewarth
I have a custom managed BA which may need to install Windows Installer 4.5 in order to install SQL Express (which requires a re-boot). I have managed to get the re-boot sequence working OK when 4.5 is installed, & my installer re-starts OK - but it restarts from my first screen, meaning the user h

Re: [WiX-users] Light "could not find file ...\install.exe" when using vc_red.msi

2012-05-10 Thread stewarth
ould be removed. > > It never occured to me that they may have shipped one of those MSI files. > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:09 AM, stewarth > <stewart.hilson@>wrote: > >> >> stewarth wrote >> > >> > >> > stewarth wrote >> >> >

Re: [WiX-users] Light "could not find file ...\install.exe" when using vc_red.msi

2012-05-09 Thread stewarth
stewarth wrote > > > stewarth wrote >> >> Just trying to add the vc 2010 runtime to my bundle. >> >> The installation files available to me on our network are : >> >> P:\Projects\Updates\VS2010_x86\vc_red.msi >> P:\Projects\Updates\VS2010_x

Re: [WiX-users] Light "could not find file ...\install.exe" when using vc_red.msi

2012-05-04 Thread stewarth
stewarth wrote > > Just trying to add the vc 2010 runtime to my bundle. > > The installation files available to me on our network are : > > P:\Projects\Updates\VS2010_x86\vc_red.msi > P:\Projects\Updates\VS2010_x86\vc_red.cab > > (not sure why we dont just use vcre

[WiX-users] Light "could not find file ...\install.exe" when using vc_red.msi

2012-05-04 Thread stewarth
Just trying to add the vc 2010 runtime to my bundle. The installation files available to me on our network are : P:\Projects\Updates\VS2010_x86\vc_red.msi P:\Projects\Updates\VS2010_x86\vc_red.cab (not sure why we dont just use vcredist_x86.exe...) I add these to my bundle as:

Re: [WiX-users] Can I get the location of setup log files from my BA?

2012-05-01 Thread stewarth
stewarth wrote > > Using Burn, my setup generates 2 log files, one from the bundle and one > from an msi. > > If my install fails, i'd like to display some sort of 'see this log file: > logfilename' so users will know what to send to us, and during test i don

[WiX-users] Can I get the location of setup log files from my BA?

2012-05-01 Thread stewarth
Using Burn, my setup generates 2 log files, one from the bundle and one from an msi. If my install fails, i'd like to display some sort of 'see this log file: logfilename' so users will know what to send to us, and during test i dont have to keep reminding people where to look (!) So, from my BA

[WiX-users] .Net 4.0 installation feedback using protocol="netfx"

2012-04-25 Thread stewarth
Hi - I have set protocol="netfx" for the .Net 4.0 ExePackage, and i do get a moving progress bar during its installation. However i wonder if there is a way of showing what the .net installer is actually doing because this can take ages & still looks at times like it has hung. I use [ProgressPa

[WiX-users] Out of Office AutoReply: Burn + MBA + .Net 4 setup location

2012-04-13 Thread stewarth
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[WiX-users] Burn + MBA + .Net 4 setup location

2012-04-11 Thread stewarth
I have pretty much completed our burn mba installer but just come across a slight problem. I have declared the .Net 4 ExePackage as compressed="no" (along with all our other pre-reqs, i.e. SQL Express etc) to avoid sucking it into every build that we do during test. I have a resolver in my mba th

Re: [WiX-users] Can't get SetLocalSource to work...

2012-03-27 Thread stewarth
I'm dont know if I'm posting correctly because no-one seems to look at my posts . Anyway - i resolved this issue. I needed to set the ResolveSourceEventArgs.Result to Result.Retry. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Can-t-get-SetLocalS

Re: [WiX-users] customizing burn prerequisite boostrapper image in theme

2012-02-07 Thread stewarth
I got this working by adding my image file to the payload - & in the .thm file: Also, in case anyone is scratching their head like i was with localisation, you need to define two WixVariables: Otherwise it will use the default ones. -- View this message in contex