I think I was having similar issues, and I reverted to using http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/patch_building.htm It does have some shortcomings (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2010/08/24/comparison-of-patchwiz-and-wix-v3-patch-build.aspx ) , but it allowed me to create patches off of the "official" MSI packages (and their contents) that were deployed.
-----Original Message----- From: Kryschan [mailto:christian.hennig....@wincor-nixdorf.com] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 2:44 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Patch in Wix 3.6 is empty. warning PYRO1079: The cabinet '***.cab' does not contain any files Hi Guys, we are using the way of building patches as described in WiX help "Patch Building Using Purely WiX", meaning that we are building the delta from the wixpdb's using torch. The only difference to the sample is that the files for the different versions are always in the same location during build of the baseline msi's. We are using a source control tool. Hence it's just not possible to place the files in another directory for each version. Since WiX 3.6 we get the mentioned warning of empty cabinet file. It looks like WiX 3.6 has some optimization in it to avoid checking for differences in files originated from the same location. That was definitely working with WiX 3.5. We are really looking forward to a solution for this issue. Christian Hennig -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WIX-users-Patch-in-Wix-3-6-is-empty-warning-PYRO1079-The-cabinet-cab-does-not-contain-any-files-tp7335788p7587027.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
