One way is to turn off all compression in your authoring, and then update the Media table after you create the cabinets, but you noticed that that results in the files still being laid out (copied).
You could (somehow) pre-calculate the final cabinet file order and place the cab files in their "smart-cabbing" locations. If the cabinet file contents aren't different they won't be recabbed. I don't know what you are gaining by packaging the files "manually" yourself using CABARC, however, since the exact same cabinet creation code is used by light.exe as cabarc.exe uses to create cabinet files. -----Original Message----- From: Ondrej Zarevucky [mailto:ondrej.zarevu...@fine.cz] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Light: Skip cabinet creation Hi, I have a bit weird question/feature request: - Is there a way, how to skip cabinet creation? I would like Light to create only the MSI package. We are packaging all the files manually using CABARC from "Microsoft Cabinet Software Development Kit" and it takes unnecessary time and disk space to package the cabinet files in Light once more. Even when using Cabinet cache and setting no compression in our <Media ... /> elemenets it takes time to copy all the data around our disks. Thank you for any answer Ondřej Zarevúcky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
