Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

2009-10-14 Thread John Lister
Blair wrote: > BTW, unless your condition is in the "MainExecutable" component you may want > to try not putting any children in your PatchFamily element. If PatchFamily > is empty it checks everything for inclusion. Otherwise it filters to only > include what is in that list. > Having originall

Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

2009-10-14 Thread John Lister
Blair wrote: > First, what was your commandline to pyro? You have to match the @Id of your > PatchBaseline element to the wixmst you supply from torch in your pyro > commandline (e.g. "-t Sample sample.wixmst"). Also your commandline to torch > should include "-p". > > Also, between your baseline a

Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

2009-10-14 Thread Blair
First, what was your commandline to pyro? You have to match the @Id of your PatchBaseline element to the wixmst you supply from torch in your pyro commandline (e.g. "-t Sample sample.wixmst"). Also your commandline to torch should include "-p". Also, between your baseline and your upgraded you sho

Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

2009-10-14 Thread John Lister
Blair wrote > > If you have a lot of customers you will probably be better off > distributing > an MSP file which can be run right from your web site instead of requiring > a > special command-line like a minor upgrade MSI will. Cheers, this seems the best solution as it has been distributed a b

Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

2009-10-13 Thread Blair
: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:36 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up I have also had a similar experience with a third party MSI, which we fixed by editing the cached copy. The other option you could try is writing a Minor Upgrade for

Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Osmond
the package. Because it is not doing an uninstall (as a major upgrade would) it should replace the cached MSI. Michael From: Rob Hamflett [...@snsys.com] Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2009 2:50 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Installer screw up

2009-10-13 Thread Rob Hamflett
We had something like this but managed to catch it after it had gone to only one customer. The installer we gave them had a condition that prevented it from being uninstalled. I had to install it locally and find the cached copy. You can either do this by searching the Windows folder or lo