Were the properties persisted during first time installation ? If not, they'd be blank during maintenance. Ideally, you'd recover the property values in the early stages of the (re)installation.
To answer your specific question, for the wix only option, you would add the condition NOT PATCH to the custom action, rather than the components. Check what effect this has though because a patch will reinstall all components in the affected feature. Component conditions aren't reevaluated during maintenance unless the component is transitive. You could also use the OptimizeCustomActions element under the patch element as a more heavy-handed way of preventing any CAs from running. It depends on what your CAs do. -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Booth [mailto:raymond.bo...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 August 2012 11:02 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix Patching Hi We are working within a constrained environment which defines a set of custom actions and custom tables for a deployment framework using wix. I am looking at creating simple patches for MSIs which will ONLY copy modified files or new files to servers as some of the MSIs are reasonably complex and do not warrant a full upgrade for a couple of file changes. I have looked at both methods - using "Patch Creation Properties" and also using the "Purely Wix" methods described in the documentation at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/patching.htm The issue I have in both cases is that the patch appears to run the ExecXmlFile custom action which "injects" properties from a custom table into our config files and in the patch the properties are blank. I do not fully understand this but I suspect it is something to do with the custom actions in our framework whcih are effectively a black box. However, we would be happy to omit this step as all we really need is a way of copying new or modified files within the patch. I have reviewed the documenation and tried various approaches but cannot find a way to do this successfully as yet. Things I have tried or investigated; Patch Creation Properties - Looked at trying to populate UpgradedFilesToIgnore to see if I could add the config files to this but could not find a way to do this within the patch.wxs - not sure if this would suppress the ExecXmlFile action anyway? - Delete files from the admin upgrade target install to try to get them to be ignored - no success as I think the custom action still runs Wix Only - In the Patch file only reference a single component (which doesn't include any util:XmlFile calls) - still runs the custom action - In the MSIs added <Condition>NO PATCH</Condition> to the component(s) which include the util:XmlFile calls -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Wix-Patching-tp 7579825.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
