Oh no, I'm not asking for help. I was offering a few suggestions to the original poster.
Baselining the msi is the way we do it, and do a diff/patch validation between the baselined msi and a daily msi. Thanks though. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Bryan Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Chad, > > I may not be fully understanding your requirements, but it sounds like you > want to create a patch that does not patch every file in the installer? I > have not yet tried to create patches with WIX, I still use msimsp to create > patches with a .pcp file for the input, so I cant tell you the WIX way to > create the patch that ignores this file, but I assume this process will work > for both since it is outside the patch creation process. > > What you can do is to create your Target image and your Upgrade image, and > then simply delete the file that you don't want patched from the > administrative Upgrade image and it won't be included in the patch. You do > not need to modify your installer .msi in any way, or change the .pcp to > ignore the file. Just deleting the file from disk in the administrative > Upgrade image will prevent it from being included in the patch. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:28 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] One patch to rule them all > > I'm not a patching expert, but there is a feature in pyro that allows you > to filter out Fragments and target only the portions of the install that you > want. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 22:09 > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] One patch to rule them all > > I assume the patch fails because it was created with an installer set (both > base[v1] and upgrade[v2]) that had a different DLL than the current > installer being used on the machine. > > It all comes down to me being able to ask WiX to please ignore the DLL and > just patch my other files, no matter how different the DLL is from the V2 > or > V1 of my installer the patch was created from. > > I have other ugly/non-professional/hack non-WiX solutions, but getting that > code reviewed is an ugly prospect. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:15 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] One patch to rule them all > > Could you baseline a Patch Target msi and patch off that? > > I'm not big on patching, but it sounds like the msp is baselined and not > the > msi. > > I'd definitely take someone else's word though. Just an opening thought. > > If you want it included no matter what (as you stated), maybe script based > on file version? > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Rob Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a strange question that I've been trying to find a solution to for > > awhile and I'm hoping people who work with WiX more than me might have a > > good suggestion. I've got an installer that is built every day, using > WiX, > > that contains a DLL taken from a project in development. I also have a > > patch, built using WiX, for the installer that adds a few files to the > > program. The patch is hosted on a server that our feature fetches the > > location to then downloads and installs the patch. The problem is that > the > > patch will only work for that day's build because the DLL constantly > > changes. I need to find a way to include this DLL in the installer > package, > > but not have the patch care that the DLL has changed. 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