Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-10 Thread Spud
Thanks Neil, I knew security would be an issue / can of worms, but at least I can now stop looking for something that doesn't exist :) Cheers again. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-create-and-reference-a-custom-pre-requisite

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-10 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Support for username/password is not available today, you could add it to the url using something like http://username:passw...@site.com/ (not sure this work but might be worth trying). I would point out that it won't be very secure as the contents of the bundle could be extracted to reveal the pa

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-10 Thread Spud
OK thanks, I think I'm getting there So, I have my MsiPackage for my download... https://mycompany.com/downloads/blahblah/sharedcomponents.msi"; DisplayName="Shared Components" Compressed="no" Vital="yes"> One piece of missing info I cannot find in the docume

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-09 Thread Hoover, Jacob
MsiPackage/@Compressed = No -Original Message- From: Spud [mailto:andysmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package Hi Raj, thanks for your response. I

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-09 Thread Spud
Hi Raj, thanks for your response. I can put all the third party components in their own MSI (in fact I have now done just that) but since the MSI is currently within the Bootstrapper.exe its self it will always get downloaded with each update. *How* do I set this "thirdpartycomponents.msi" up to

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-08 Thread ptr
In my investigation I have found that if you have seldom changing thirdparty components... give them their own msi's and tie down there version/product code. The boostrapper that the thirdparty msi of the required version is already installed and doesn't seem to download or install it. -Raj On

[WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-08 Thread andy smith
I have a WiX 3.6 install using burn to chain 5 packages plus a pre-requisite of .net 4 which uses the short but sweet reference. It's working pretty nicely, but there is one area which needs tidying up. Three of my packages (which are installed into their own separate directory) have a large num