Is it possible to get feedback from light (or any of the other WiX binaries)
what it is currently doing (e.g. "compressing file XY") or even something
like "37% finished?
(Verbose output is only a slight improvement as it stays rather long at
"Creating cabinet".)
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We have the following scenario:
- base installation with 14k files, 800MB msi file and about 1,4GB after
installation
- patch changing about 2k files and adding 13k files, 400MB msp file
- base installation took about 5-7 minutes to install
- patch took more than 40 minutes to apply (msiexe
That Windows Installer decides on "Feature level" which files to touch rather
than on "Component level" explains a lot, as I had used only a single
feature. After dividing this feature into >100 smaller features the patch is
ready after 18 minutes. That's still not great but a significant improveme
According to the log file
[2013-08-12T17:22:27]i360: Creating a system restore point.
[2013-08-12T17:22:27]i362: System restore disabled, system restore point not
created.
the bootstrapper is already trying to create a system restore point. Does it
fail only because of some system settings, or co
Identical file versions are definitely not the problem. (I just ran a test
with WiX 3.7 and it work just fine. Only got a warning that the patch
contains to files.)
It looks like your wixpdb files differ in more just the version number. Even
the referenced files are the same, the internal structur
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