Hi Blair, Actually, the files are not bit-for-bit the same. The error message is probably too generic and misleading in this case.
In the case of this particular file there are no changes in code and the only difference is in version resource which has 4-th version number different from the RTM version. IMO, that explains why PatchSize=6113,TargetSize=100198. This is nothing unusual considering the build system that I am using, which increments 4-th version number with each new build. Quite a few other files have the same differences - just version resource - and they don't exhibit this problem. I build MSP on Server 2003 system with MSI version 3.01.4000.3959 and I create only Release build patches. It seems that patch application MSI version is more important than the build system MSI version since patch applies without a glitch on Vista with version V 4.5.6002.18005 MSI, while it fails on XP with MSI components version 3.01. I guess I would have to enforce both build and application MSI versions to be the same (meaning I'll have to install 4.5 MSI on XP machines before staring install and patching process), but at this time it is just a guess. Thanks, Tony -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:20 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patch failure on XP that doesn't happen on Vista I assumed you verified that the files are bit-for-bit the same before attempting to apply the patch. Do you build your MSP on a Vista/Server 2008 system? We saw this one time and it happened only with Release (not Debug) for just one file, but didn't happen when building on XP/32-bit (I never investigated building on either 64-bit XP or Server 2003). Our products were not allowed on Server OSs but we did our official builds on them. It seems that the PatchAPI binaries (described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb417345.aspx) are somehow different and the Patch Apply routines are somehow sometimes different between platforms. For a workaround we had to mark that one file as "whole file" instead of delta. It didn't happen every build, but it did happen for about two months around one of our major releases. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Juricic [mailto:tjuri...@tradestation.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:56 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Patch failure on XP that doesn't happen on Vista Applying the patch on one XP system produces the following error log for one file (edited here to shorten the path to MYFILE.EXE): MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:041]: Executing op: CacheBaselineFile(Baseline=0,FileKey=MYFILE.EXE,FilePath=C:\Program Files\..\ MYFILE.EXE,,Existing=0) MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:103]: Executing op: PatchApply(PatchName= MYFILE.EXE,TargetName=C:\Program Files\..\ MYFILE.EXE,PatchSize=6113,TargetSize=1001984,PerTick=0,,FileAttributes=512,P atchAttributes=0,CheckCRC=0) MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:135]: Re-applying security from existing file. MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:197]: Note: 1: 2318 2: C:\Config.Msi\PF4D1.tmp MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:244]: Note: 1: 2302 2: 0 MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:338]: Note: 1: 1328 2: C:\Program Files\... MYFILE.EXE 3: -1072807676 MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:400]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:463]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1328 MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:494]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:541]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1709 MSI (s) (74:4C) [17:23:03:619]: Product: MYProd Error 1328. Error applying patch to file C:\Program Files\..\ MYFILE.EXE . It has probably been updated by other means, and can no longer be modified by this patch. For more information contact your patch vendor. System Error: -1072807676 However, applying the same patch on the same RTM on Vista computer works without any trouble. 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