Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding upgrades...

2011-08-11 Thread Kanishk Rastogi
, 2011 2:13 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding upgrades... How are your Components authored? For patching to work as you expect, you need one File in one Component in a separate Fragment for each. Otherwise, the Wix linking rules

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding upgrades...

2011-08-11 Thread John Cooper
How are your Components authored? For patching to work as you expect, you need one File in one Component in a separate Fragment for each. Otherwise, the Wix linking rules will pull all the Components in a fragment even if you just want to reference one. -- John Merryweather Cooper Jack Henry

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding upgrades...

2011-08-11 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
When using the wixpdb method of patching, if you refer to something using a componentref, propertyref etc, then the whole of the fragment that the "something" lives in is included in the patch. If, during your build, you increment all file versions then everything in those fragments has changed and