I had similar problems a while back and the situation that set me over the edge was when we encountered absolutely zero install / WiX code changes but the file sequences were changing [tracked it down to an environment issue, versions of .Net installed on the machine]. I woke up one morning and noticed I was starting to go bald (and I'm not even that old); I figured enough was enough so I went for the brute force method of authoring process to ensure file sequences remained consistent between the releases. I spent a lot less time doing that than I did worrying about and attempting to manually cleanup file sequences. Haven't had the problem since. (Still missing the hair, though...)
-----Original Message----- From: Gareth [mailto:gmor...@serif.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:38 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Re-ordered cab files The new elements are contained in a brand new WiX file that is #included at the end of my existing WXS project file. They are both in new components with seperate existing DirectoryRefs - it's as simple as it can get. They're in a newly defined CAB so as to not alter any existing CABs, and the merge modules themselves (the files that are moving around) are unchanged. I was convinced for a while that it had something to do with where in the WXS file the new components are being defined and so linking would reach them in a new order, but I've tried 'first' as well as 'last' with no improvement. It just makes no sense. I even tried adding the new filess to the problematic 3rd CAB with PatchOrder defines as 1 so they'd be at the end of the CAB - hopefully leaving the existing contents in the same place - but this had no positive effect. Neither version of the 3rd CAB are sorted in any recogniaseable way, they're just predictably randomly different from each other. John Nannenga wrote: > > Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368060(VS.85).aspx > -- SDK documentation pertaining to this issue. > > Where the rubber then meets the road [within WiX] is within your directory > elements...if you have any file additions / removals within your directory > table, that impacts file sequencing. [File sequencing can also be > impacted based upon what version of .NET is loaded (many scars involved in > that one)]. > > Sometimes, you can get by with using DirectoryRef elements for the file > additions. If you have any merge modules outside of your control that > added / removed files, you're close to being hosed. > > There are also some patch enhancements that were made within WiX to better > assist with these types of issues (my knowledge of WiX 2.0 is getting > shady, been in WiX 3.x for quite some time) using such tools as Torch and > Pyro (not sure if they are available in Wix 2.0.5805.0 or not). > > > If you're using the WI SDK way of building patches (Patchwiz, admin > installs, etc...) and using DirectoryRef doesn't get the job done for you, > you can author a process that 'fixes' the file sequencing between your two > admin installs prior to patch generation. That's what I resorted to due > to the .NET item I referenced earlier. > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Re-ordered-cab-files-tp2384834p2385056.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
