Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-08 Thread john.burak
Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > In addition to admin images, you can use Melt.exe to build an image you > can use without -ax. > I thought Melt only http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/AllTools.htm dealt with merge modules (.msm). Special use, maybe? - John -- View this message in context: ht

Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
On 03-Nov-11 14:39, john.burak wrote: > new). It would be nice if pyro just fetched them from the MSIs. In addition to admin images, you can use Melt.exe to build an image you can use without -ax. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-03 Thread John Cooper
-- John M. Cooper -Original Message- From: john.burak [mailto:john.bu...@telvent.com] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:17 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change I think I figured it out! Using the pyro/torch approach, patching can b

Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-03 Thread john.burak
I think I figured it out! Using the pyro/torch approach, patching can be done from MSIs without the original source dirs. Sorry to add so much noise to the list. For the benefit of future generations, here is what I did that differed from the http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_patching.

Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-03 Thread john.burak
ange > Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 > JoCooper@ > > > > > -Original Message- > From: john.burak [mailto:john.burak@] > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:39 PM > To: wix-users@.sourceforge > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change >

Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-03 Thread John Cooper
ailto:john.bu...@telvent.com] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:39 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change I browsed the bug database and eventually found out " https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2086871&group_

Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-03 Thread john.burak
I browsed the bug database and eventually found out " https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2086871&group_id=105970&atid=642714 pyro actually diffs the files on disk " and not from inside the MSIs. In other words, the 'before' and 'after' copy of files have to exist at the same

Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-02 Thread Bob Arnson
On 02-Nov-11 13:44, john.burak wrote: > Anyone know, is this simply a known characteristic of the hashing algorithm > used to detect changes? It's not a hash: If two files are the same length, the binder does a byte-by-byte comparison. If you can repro this with a simple case, please file a bug.

[WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change

2011-11-02 Thread john.burak
[Sorry if you got this twice, I think I botched posting via Nabble the previous time] Hi, I tried the patching example given at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_patching.htm but I changed it so the source-path points to a single file in both versions (1.0 vs 1.1), and I just change the