Thanks for evaluating that... I had other stuff to do, so I was not able to check that yet. But I remember that I stumbled last days over the fact, that I must provide the *full* path to the SQLServer installation programs. So it is quite obvious, that it reacts the same way within a BA.
For now I wrote a little helper script that extracts all parameters from the given INI file and joines them to appropriate parameters that I can easily copy and paste into my bundle.wxs. Not really nice, but it works for now. And as one anyway has to update the whole bundle if a configuration parameter changes, I can live with this workaround. But I would appreciate if you can provide a solution for this kind of issue in the future - just to change a config file is definitely more robust than hacking in the bundle definition file :-) Thx for your efforts and for "wix" of course ;-) -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2012 16:46 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] How to bundle a configuration file in burn? Unfortunately is doesn’t work, SQL needs to full path. What we would need is a burn variable point to the cache folder - I'll add a defect so it is not lost. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 14 August 2012 15:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to bundle a configuration file in burn? If that does not work, we should add a way to get the full path to a payload via the Burn variable mechanism. That won't help you in WiX v3.6 but we should be able to add it in WiX v3.7. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Christian Hausknecht < chauskne...@beracom.de> wrote: > Ah... you mean that one should only provide a "relative" path like this: > > /CONFIGURATIONFILE=config.ini > > ? That sounds promising... I will try and report about it later on :-) > > Thx > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2012 11:07 > An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] How to bundle a configuration file in burn? > > I have to admit I haven't tried it yet (although probably will be > doing exactly the same thing later today). Have you tried removing the > path from the /CONFIGURATIONFILE parameter? > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Hausknecht [mailto:chauskne...@beracom.de] > Sent: 14 August 2012 08:41 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to bundle a configuration file in burn? > > Thank you for your hint, but could you give me an example, how to > express that in WiX? > > I would write this as naïve attempt: > > <ExePackage Id="SQLServer" SourceFile="X:\Software\Applikationen\SQL > Server\2008 R2\SQLEXPR32_x86_DEU.exe" > InstallCommand='/QS /ACTION=Install /SAPWD="express" > /IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS /CONFIGURATIONFILE="C:\some\path\config.ini"> > <Payload Id="SQLServerConfigFile" SourceFile="C:\some\path\config.ini" > /> > </ExePackage> > > But the /CONFIGURATIONFILE-Parameter links to a location in my local FS. > When the installer gets started it will not find the file in that > location... > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2012 09:06 > An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] How to bundle a configuration file in burn? > > You should be able to do this using the PayLoad element as a child of > your ExePackage element. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Hausknecht [mailto:chauskne...@beracom.de] > Sent: 13 August 2012 11:09 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] How to bundle a configuration file in burn? > > Hello folks, > > I would like to build a setup file for a MS SQL Server 2008 Express > Edition with a predefined configuration. One can pass a parameter > /ConfigurationFile={Absolute path to a ConfigFile.ini} to the setup > file of SQLServer in which many parameters are defined. Those config > files can easily be generated by the SQL Server UI-Setup Mode and > therefore I would like to use them also in my bundle. Now I face the > problem of how I can provide the required file and in addition which > path I must define within the parameter. Is there any chance to handle that > with burn? > > If not I have to provide *all* needed configuration parameters "by hand" > to the setup-file; this would solve the problem, but I consider this > to be not very comfortable... (I would have to change this long > parameter-string every time something changed...) > > > > I hope you can give me some good advice, in order to avoid long trial > and errors. > > > Best regards, > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > > Christian Hausknecht > > BeraCom > Beratung und Software-Entwicklung GmbH & Co. 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