From: http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/05/19/602133.aspx
"Prior to Windows Installer 2.0 you had to guarauntee uniqueness of file sequence numbers for both the installer package for all patches, but starting with Windows Installer 2.0 you need only ensure that file sequences numbers are correct for a given package since Windows Installer 2.0 and newer will automatically adjust file sequence number as necessary." I assume this is Windows Installer adjusting the file sequence number as necessary. -----Original Message----- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching: weird numbers for Media.DiskId andFile.Sequence Any ideas? Anyone? -- Yan -----Original Message----- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:59 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Patching: weird numbers for Media.DiskId andFile.Sequence Hello WiX Community, I have been analyzing the log file of my patch installation, and faced with a weird numbers I don't know the origin of. Here's the snippet: " ... TRANSFORM: The minimum 'Media.DiskId' value inserted by a patch transform is 100 TRANSFORM: The maximum 'Media.DiskId' value inserted by a patch transform is 99 TRANSFORM: The minimum 'File.Sequence' or 'Patch.Sequence' value inserted by a patch transform is 10000 TRANSFORM: The maximum 'File.Sequence' or 'Patch.Sequence' value inserted by a patch transform is 9999. ... " Googling this stuff proved that it is not only specific to my installation, but can be seen in many others. My question is where those numbers come from??? The Media/@Id value of my patch is 200. When I apply the patch manually in Orca, I can see another row being correctly added to the Media table with 200 in DiskId column. But when I query that table from my immediate custom action like this SELECT DISTINCT `PatchPackage`.`PatchId`, `Media`.`LastSequence` FROM `PatchPackage`, `Media` WHERE `PatchPackage`.`Media_` = `Media`.`DiskId` ORDER BY `LastSequence` (according to Heath Stewart blog entry) it returns 10001 as last sequence. I assume this is somehow related to the strange numbers above. Can anyone suggest where to look for the explanation? Please, help... Thank you, -- Yan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
