Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please

2009-08-14 Thread Blair
after calling Candle. -Original Message- From: shibo [mailto:szheng...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 2:36 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please Blair, >From Wix Help, Patch family attribute Versi

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please

2009-08-14 Thread shibo
Blair, >From Wix Help, Patch family attribute Version: Used to populate the sequence column of the MsiPatchSequence table in the final MSP file. Specified in x.x.x.x format. See documentation for Sequence column of MsiPatchSequence table in MSI SDK. It says that x.x.x.x format is expected inst

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please

2009-08-14 Thread shibo
Blair, Many thanks for your reply. It is very assuring. Checking the Patch element in WiX help file, nothing mentions about ListOfPatchGUIDsToReplace. It looks like done by Visual Studio IDE. I am working from command line, do you have an example patch wxs file? Thanks, Shibo -- View this mes

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please

2009-08-13 Thread Blair
, the installation will simply repair leaving the Patch 2 version in place (in spite of presenting Patch 1). -Original Message- From: shibo [mailto:szheng...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please

2009-08-13 Thread Blair
ler XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please 1) In the patch family, just list the components that have changed or been added. 2) The PatchFamily element has an attribute you can set: Supersede="yes". This will make your patch replace all previous

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please

2009-08-13 Thread shibo
Peter, Thanks for your reply. 1) This means that we have to work out the differences for WiX. I am very surprised. This is not practical for us. 2) If I have 2 patches created based on the same baseline. When a customer has base(rtm), patch 1 and 2 installed, what happens if he tries to install pa

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching - two questions please

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
1) In the patch family, just list the components that have changed or been added. 2) The PatchFamily element has an attribute you can set: Supersede="yes". This will make your patch replace all previous patches in the same patch family. If you arent using patch families and supercedence then I dont