Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-22 Thread ctludlow
Sean, I was able to get your suggestion to work perfectly, and it is FAST! Steps I performed in case anyone needs this info: 1) Used WinRAR to build a self extracting SFX archive for my install package that contained 3600 files. I set the setup.exe with all my quiet install/suppress reboot switc

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-21 Thread ctludlow
Thanks Sean, I'll give this a shot. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Slow-Verifying-of-chained-Exepackages-tp7599290p7599306.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread Sean Hall
, 2015 2:32 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages > > Thanks Phill, I tried your recommendation of defaulting to cache=yes and > added the ParallelCache to the chain, but Burn just seems to take forever > verifying

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread Rob Mensching
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages Thanks Phill, I tried your recommendation of defaulting to cache=yes and added the ParallelCache to the chain, but Burn just seems to take forever verifying and copying the 3600 files still. I think I'm goi

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread ctludlow
Thanks Phill, I tried your recommendation of defaulting to cache=yes and added the ParallelCache to the chain, but Burn just seems to take forever verifying and copying the 3600 files still. I think I'm going to have to abandon Burn and just write a C# app to execute the 3 setup packages sequent

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread Phill Hogland
You might get some benefit from Chain/@ParallelCache='yes'. Also as I understand it SuppressSignatureVerification="yes" is the default (assuming wix 3.9) and there is a joy-of-setup blog somewhere which recommends to leave options like MsiPackage/@Cache for wix to manage unless you specifically ha

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread Rob Mensching
: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages Thanks for your reply Rob, I did some analysis: Of the 3 chained exepackages I am installing, 1 sticks out like a sore thumb because it has so many files in it. It has 3600 files (mostly small ones

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread ctludlow
Thanks for your reply Rob, I did some analysis: Of the 3 chained exepackages I am installing, 1 sticks out like a sore thumb because it has so many files in it. It has 3600 files (mostly small ones) and is a total of 146mb in size. Further analysis of the log file shows that Verifying these 3600 f

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread Rob Mensching
: Friday, February 20, 2015 10:07 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages I have written a bootstrap project that chains 3, 3rdParty installers together. All 3 installers are executed and install fine by Burn, so this is good. The problem I&#

Re: [WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread ctludlow
None of the boxes I install on have internet connectivity. Is that a problem? I also have made attempts to go to the hash verification. >From my attached project, here are examples from my Heat generated Payload group: -- View this message in context: http://windows-

[WiX-users] Slow Verifying of chained Exepackages

2015-02-20 Thread ctludlow
I have written a bootstrap project that chains 3, 3rdParty installers together. All 3 installers are executed and install fine by Burn, so this is good. The problem I'm having is the incredibly slow performance of the "Verified existing payload:" section in the logs, before the files are actual