Re: [WiX-users] Recreating duplicate .msi from revision control system

2007-11-27 Thread Rob Mensching
Kelly is exactly correct. In this case, the first autogenerated GUID that is getting you is the Package/@Id. The MSI SDK says that the Package/@Id should be unique for every MSI file. Arguably you could say the Ids should be the same in this case (and you could override the autogenerate) but

Re: [WiX-users] Recreating duplicate .msi from revision control system

2007-11-26 Thread Christopher Painter
Your rebuilt MSI is getting a distinct PackageCode. Normally it's a best practice for each package to get a distinct PackageCode. I suppose in your CM environment, if the goal is to really reproduce the *EXACT* package, then you'll have to preserve the PackageCode that was used to gen

Re: [WiX-users] Recreating duplicate .msi from revision control system

2007-11-26 Thread Kelly Leahy
I don't know if it's possible to produce exactly the same MSI, but I think your problem is related to automatically generated package codes or product codes. If you want to be able to rebuild an MSI that acts exactly the same as one that already went out the door (I think this is generally a b