You'd need to recreate the meta-data the bundle needs when changing the chain anyway. Since the Burn executable engine is ~300K there was little advantage to updating the metadata but not just stick the engine back on the metadata again. Plus, if there is a bug in the engine, an update can fix it.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Amadeus <amadeus.h...@diadrom.se> wrote: > Thanks for your reply, > > The self-updating bundle seems interesting and I will look more into that. > > I understand you advise against swapping out the MSIs on the server. The > problem with adding patches as you describe is that we already have our own > software that updates the applications we install (it's one of the packages > we install, actually). After installation is finished we have a step in our > bootstrapper that communicates with this software service to download the > latest patches (not only MSPs). > > Ideally we would not want to update anything (so this updating step should > be /very /short). Since we're already downloading the packages, we want > them > to be the latest. Also, our application is non-trivial in size and scope, > which means *a lot* of packages - and a lot of updates and bug fixes. > Having > to edit the bundle, add the MSPs and updated MSIs and increment the version > and rebuild each time we have a new package will take time, time we ideally > want to save. > > It should be noted we don't want to add /new /MSIs. At that point it would > seem fair to update the bundle, rebuild and distribute. However, for all > the > minor versions it just seem like such a hassle. Is there really no way for > us to work this way? :) > > Cheers, > Amadeus > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-Updating-package-without-rebuilding-tp7582033p7582060.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
