Hi,
Good to know about Dark.exe, didn't notice it till now :)
I'm having problems after converting my Original MSI to WXS file, I try
to Candle it so I can then light it to get the wixpdb, but I get this
error:
\\sqlsrv\tsinstallers\TestShell Suite\4.6.255 SP1\Data\Driver
Builder\TestShell
DriverBuilder Setup.wxs(2939) : error CNDL0072 : A InstallExecute
element must have a Before attribute, After attribute, or a Sequence
attribute.
If I look at my original setup.wxs file the InstallExecute tag looks
like this:
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<InstallExecute After="RemoveExistingProducts"/>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
It does have an "After" attribute... what am I doing wrong... maybe it's
the UNC path? Naa.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:55 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Cc: Alex Abugov; Ronen Akri
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!
If the only changes in your bug fix are files in the file table, that
should work. To rebuild your code you may consider using dark on your
released MSI to get your base WIXPDB and to get your starting point for
your bug fix.
The REINSTALL property will be autoselected to be the smallest section
of already installed features that cover all of the database changes
contained in the patch if you don't override it (as you are proposing).
Normally the default value should suffice, unless you have a complex
feature/component tree or if you have files that don't lend themselves
well to the file versioning rules.
Your overridden value for REINSTALLMODE property will prevent
application of registry and shortcuts from the patched view. If you
don't have a requirement for the "a" flag, the default should suffice.
Blair
-----Original Message-----
From: tome...@qualisystems.com [mailto:tome...@qualisystems.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:26 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: alex...@qualisystems.com; rone...@qualisystems.com
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!
Hi,
After all your help :) I think I have a solution to my problem, please
let me know what you think:
My product is already installed on customers machines, I didn't save the
wixpdb nor the files.wxs (the Heat harvest file) of those releases,
since I didn't know I'll need them to issue a patch, I also don't have
the product Id since it's * (auto generated).
So, I need to rebuild my code and create the MSIs again with the same
code as the released product making sure I hard code the Original
Product Id I take from the released MSI.
Then I make my changes (fix the bug or whatever) and rebuild my code and
create the MSIs again MAKING SURE to use the same files.wxs created by
the previous HEAT harvest (so the GUIDS will be the same).
Now I have both wixpdb files without the change and with the change.
I torch them to get the diff.wixmst. (using the -xi and -p flags) And
then I pyro. (pyro.exe patch\patch.wixmsp -out patch.msp -t RTM
patch\diff.wixmst
-v)
The customer needs to install the msp with this command:
MSIEXEC /update "\\tomer-c-d3\Share\patch.msp" REINSTALL=ALL
REINSTALLMODE=a
It seems a bit cumbersome, will it work? :) Thanks again.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 9:51 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!
One way to see what the transforms in a patch actually contain WRT any
particular MSI, open the MSI in Orca, then open the MSP file using the
Transform menu item "View a patch". It will highlight the database
changes, and in the case of files, you can look at the two file-related
tables to see which files it thinks have been changed.
-----Original Message-----
From: tome...@qualisystems.com [mailto:tome...@qualisystems.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 10:59 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!
One more thing, I opened the msp file with z7, there are only: exe dll
(.net
assemblies) and one txt file!? there.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:24 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!
Torch marks up the database changes. Including -p causes it to leave the
unchanged portions of the database intact so they will be present for
Pyro to use in its processing.
It is Pyro that looks at the two files and determines if they are the
same or not, and it "promotes" files that compare as different to be
considered as "changed" and thus be included with the other marked
database changes.
If you use WIXOUT or WIXPDB files then fragment boundaries are
considered in the comparisons, so if you specify references to things to
include in your patch family/families, things that are not in any
referenced fragments are ignored (by design).
Look for the files you are concerned with in the WIXMST file. You should
find either paths or references to cabinet-ids for both the updated and
the previous versions of the files.
Blair
-----Original Message-----
From: tome...@qualisystems.com [mailto:tome...@qualisystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:19 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!
I'm creating a patch, I'm not sure that the patch includes all of my
files even though I'm passing the -p flag to the torch.exe.
Can someone please explain to me the logic that torch uses to determine
what files are included in the patch.
Thanks.
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