Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-16 Thread Rob Mensching
discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions Peter Oehlert wrote: > I was wondering about that given the name. I'm not seeing an execxmlconfig > in the logfile with the /l*v option. Why might the schedule run but not the > exec? >

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-16 Thread Peter Oehlert
ndows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions Peter Oehlert wrote: > I was wondering about that given the name. I'm not seeing an execxmlconfig > in the logfile with the /l*v option. Why might the schedule run but not the > exec? > It won't call

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-16 Thread Bob Arnson
Peter Oehlert wrote: > I was wondering about that given the name. I'm not seeing an execxmlconfig > in the logfile with the /l*v option. Why might the schedule run but not the > exec? > It won't call ExecXmlConfig if there was nothing to do, or if the component tied to the XmlConfig isn't bein

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Oehlert
neral discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions Peter Oehlert wrote: > 1. So any idea why the code sample does not modify the xml file in the > correct sequence? SchedXmlConfig is called during script-generation but ExecXmlConfig, which actually m

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Arnson
Peter Oehlert wrote: > 1. So any idea why the code sample does not modify the xml file in the > correct sequence? SchedXmlConfig is called during script-generation but ExecXmlConfig, which actually modifies the files, is called during script execution, after files are installed. -- sig://boB h

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Oehlert
toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions 1. The default sequencing of XmlConfig should modify the file after it is installed. 2. If you make your XmlConfig/@VerifyPath to reach deeper then it will not configure things that already exist. That should get you what you want. I've don

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-15 Thread Rob Mensching
very specific VerifyPaths. -Original Message- From: Peter Oehlert [mailto:poehl...@securityinnovation.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:57 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] XmlConfig questions At a high level I have 2 quest

[WiX-users] XmlConfig questions

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Oehlert
At a high level I have 2 questions: 1. How do you get XmlConfig to run *after* the config file is installed? 2. To change an existing element without a unique id, do I have to delete it and recreate it? So, I'm dealing with an XML config file that should look like this: