Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, exactly. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Dave Andersen wrote: > My apologies. For some reason, I didn't see your message until after I had > made my second post. > > It kind of sounds like I've been misusing the package conditions with > respect to their intended purpose (you indicated "n

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-09 Thread Dave Andersen
My apologies. For some reason, I didn't see your message until after I had made my second post. It kind of sounds like I've been misusing the package conditions with respect to their intended purpose (you indicated "never should be installed" vs my interpretation of "not installed right now"). Wou

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-09 Thread Blair Murri
m: r...@robmensching.com > > > Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:13:08 -0700 > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA > > > > > > That's what I was saying before. Your packages are probably b

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
Would setting the request state to BOOTSTRAPPER_REQUEST_STATE_CACHE > (RequestState.Cache) in the BA during the plan accomplish what Dave is > attempting? > > > From: r...@robmensching.com > > Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:13:08 -0700 > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > &

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-09 Thread Blair Murri
ers] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA > > That's what I was saying before. Your packages are probably being > conditioned out thus they won't be cached. Burn won't cache stuff that will > never be installed. > > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Dav

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-08 Thread Rob Mensching
That's what I was saying before. Your packages are probably being conditioned out thus they won't be cached. Burn won't cache stuff that will never be installed. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Dave Andersen wrote: > I've tried using those attributes, but I think I'm actually missing > somethi

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-08 Thread Dave Andersen
I've tried using those attributes, but I think I'm actually missing something in my MBA to actually trigger the Cache action on the package. I'm controlling installation of the package by setting/unsetting a Variable in the MBA, which is tied to the InstallCondition of the package; perhaps that wo

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-08 Thread tom
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/forcing-packages-to-be-cached-in-a-custom-BA-tp7589513p7589522.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- October Webinars:

Re: [WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-08 Thread Rob Mensching
It should work as long as your package isn't conditioned out. Your SO question doesn't provide detail about your MsiPackage authoring to answer. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Dave Andersen wrote: > I posted this question on Stack Overflow, but it hasn't gotten any > responses > yet: > > http:

[WiX-users] forcing packages to be cached in a custom BA

2013-10-07 Thread Dave Andersen
I posted this question on Stack Overflow, but it hasn't gotten any responses yet: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19058733/force-caching-of-compressed-packages-in-a-wix-custom-bootstrapper-application