Thanks Phil. However I'm still not clear about the entire workflow. I only
have one bootstrapper application which includes no addons. Addons will come
later as separate MSI's (on their own physical DVD to make things more
interesting). So on the DVD I'll literally have just one MSI and maybe a text
file readme of some sort.
How do I make the connection between:
<RelatedBundle Action='Detect' Id='{GUID to be shared with future related
bundles}' /> /**I understand that this is defined in my bootstrapper app**/
And
Addon1.msi (again, this MSI is delivered on a different media and knows nothing
about my bootstrapper app)?
Our initial idea was to have one of our UI screens in our BA prompt for the
media, find the MSI, and install it.
Hope that makes sense..
Regards,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:24 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing MSI's NOT Included in my Bootstrapper
Application Bundle
I am not an expert and am still learning this topic, but I think it boils down
to:
In the "main" bundle preemptively add a line like:
<RelatedBundle Action='Detect' Id='{GUID to be shared with future related
bundles}' />
In the future add-on, update, or patch, (as indicated) add this to tell it that
it is related to the main product.
<RelatedBundle Action='Addon' Id='{GUID in Main bundle ReleatedBundle
elements}' />
I also set Bundle/@Tag to a unique string in each bundle.
I have done limited testing of this approach but it seemed to work so far.
I am interesting in learning it this approach is wrong or incomplete.
There is also info here about code in an mba
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21612377/schedule-relatedbundle-action-before-primary-bundle
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