Andrew Lee wrote: > 1. Can the MSI package be marked in some way so that the complete MSI > file (under 5 MBs in my case) is cached by Windows Installer? > No. > 2. Can my setup bootstrapper call some MSI API to make Windows > Installer cache the complete package? > No. > 3. Should my setup bootstrapper copy the MSI package to a permanent > location on the local computer and perform the installation from > there? > Yes. That's what other apps like Office do. > If so can I prevent the Windows Installer doing it's own caching > since the MSI package will always be available on the local computer? > No. As they're stripped, they're usually small. The exception is if you have large files in the Binary table, for example, because that data isn't stripped out.
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