Okay I have done a bit more testing with Pure Wix and Melt and here is what I have found with my testing.
Create Product.wxs with a bunch of components in root and I also create a fragment with is bunch more components. I then built this msi and associated .wixpdb file. I then updated some of the files in the root and some of the file in the fragment and built the msi/wixpdb I then created my patch.wxs file and in the PatchFamily I added one ComponentRef from the components in root. Built then ran my patch batch file that will call Melt, torch, candle, light and pyro to build the patch. Using Orca I applied the patch to the Target .msi and sure enough only the files from root componentref showed as updated. I updated the patch.wxs and added one ComponentRef from the fragment and rebuilt the patch. Orca now shows all updated files from root and fragment. So that worked and therefore tells me that the patch.wxs has to have a ComponentRef of at least one component from every single fragment/wixlib that are associated with the main product.wxs. And it does not matter if the component that is being referenced is changed from the previous version or not. The exception to this would be if there are new components and therefore each of the new componentref's need to be added? Now if I am wrong in anything that I mentioned here then someone please let me know before I get too far. Now how about Merge modules that have been updated??? How does Pure WiX and Melt handle those? Now I had hear or read from somewhere that patch with Pure WiX is less complicated than using the Patch Creation Properties to generate a patch.. Well from the work I have done just to make this sample it seems that Pure WiX is more complicated than Patch Creation as with Patch Creation you only need the Target .msi and all the Update .msi files, have them extracted and simple patch.wxs file that simple has the Upgrade image and all Target Images. So if I am under the wrong opinion here then someone set me straight and show me how Pure WiX patching is better.... Thanks for reading my rantings.... It is Friday ;) -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Purely-WiX-patching-and-FeatureRef-tp7590049p7590456.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
