No. Burn doesn't currently work that way. Instead, the design is to update
the bootstrapper and publish it pointing to new binaries. That way you can
handle the case where previous versions of the bootstrapper are installed
and get the new MSIs installed everywhere.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Maillet, Ed <email...@unum.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>  I'm using Burn in Wix 3.6.1615.0 and just trying to understand the basics.
>
> I have two MSIs (A & B) and I'm using the MsiPackage element as such:
>
>
> <MsiPackage Id="a" SourceFile="c:\temp\msis\BurnA.msi" Vital="yes"
> DownloadUrl="http://server:8077/BurnA.msi"; Cache="no"
> Compressed="no"></MsiPackage>
> <MsiPackage Id="b" After="a" SourceFile="c:\temp\msis\BurnB.msi"
> Vital="yes"
> DownloadUrl="http://server:8077/BurnB.msi"; Cache="no"
> Compressed="no"></MsiPackage>
>
>
> Since SourceFile attribute references the actual msi and the download url
> does also, can the MSIs differ?
> The idea being that when the bootstrap was build MSI A v1.0 was the latest
> but now MSI A v1.1 is released. I don't want to have to update the
> bootstrapper. I just want it to get and run the MSI located at the download
> URL (no matter what MSI it is).
>
> I've play around a little bit but get the error: Error 0x80091007: Hash
> mismatch for payload
>
> Seems like that's due to MSI A v1.0 versus MSI A v1.1
>
> Can the MsiPackage element be made to run whatever MSI is located at the
> download URL regardless of anything else?
>
>
>
>
>
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