Re #2: DLLs normally have a version number bound directly into the binary. In this case, timestamps alone do not suffice to make a file "newer". You can read about the file versioning rules here:
http://tinyurl.com/5rc27e Best regards, -- Leo ________________________________ From: Michael Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>; Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 3:29:25 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running minor upgrade sample codes Hi Rob, 1. Can you explain what command option do I use to create the log file? 2. How to make helper.dll a newer version? All I did was to write a c# utility to change the file's last access time. Is this enough? Thanks, Michael --- On Wed, 11/5/08, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Running minor upgrade sample codes To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 3:11 PM 1. Look in your verbose log file. It will explain why the original MSI was required. 2. Does helper.dll have a newer file version? -----Original Message----- From: Michael Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 14:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Running minor upgrade sample codes I am running the sample codes that came with the wix tutorial (version 2.0) for minor upgrade. First of all, I created the initial install package which I named it as "sampleOld.msi". The install process ran without any errors. After that, I created the second install package which I named it as "sampleNew.msi". I follow the instruction to open a command prompt and ran the instruction as follows: "msiexec /i samplenew.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus" I can see two problems when running this command. 1. If the original install package does not reside on the same directory, it gave the following error: "A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file: C:\temp\Wix tutorial\lesson4\SampleUpgrade\New\sampleOld.msi" I have to copy the old file ("sampleOld.msi") from other directory to the current directory. I don't think this is neccessary and it is an error. 2. I intentionally "touched" the helper.dll file so that its timestamp is newer than the old one. After the upgrade ("sampleNew.msi") is finished, I don't see the new file was copied. Anyone has the experiement and how to solve the problems? Thanks in advance for assistance. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
