That's what I was afraid of. Thx Edwin. On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Edwin Castro <egca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, you'll need to address the duplication yourself. The MSI > database schema doesn't allow for primary keys to be duplicated. > > > > Years ago, when I was using HarvestDirectory, I wrote some XSLT transforms > to either remove duplicates or modify/set File/@Id to avoid duplication. I > also had to modify my build to automatically apply the XSLT transforms to > the HarvestDirectory generated wix source. > > > > -- > Edwin G. Castro > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Brad Woodfiel <disp...@woodfield.ca> > wrote: > > > Quick background on what I'm working on: > > > > I am creating a new WIX installer after years of using Install Shield for > > multiple of our PowerBuilder applications. The PB apps use files from > our > > .Net applications and control libraries, so therefore are receiving files > > from multiple locations. These external apps and libraries collections > are > > built through TFS and also share files between them. We also have an > > internal TFS plugin to retrieve the output from these external builds and > > drop them to the installer source locations before the build is executed. > > > > Because the internal and external files are under regular modification > I've > > been setting up the WIX installer to use Harvest tasks (File and > Directory) > > to automatically retrieve them from the installer build source location. > > > > The issue that I am currently running into is with the duplicate files in > > the various files and the HarvestDirectory is causing "duplicate symbol" > > errors. > > > > "Error 8 Duplicate symbol 'Component:cmp4F01576ED2586AF9D280A187DB1A1557' > > found. This typically means that an Id is duplicated. Check to make sure > > all your identifiers of a given type (File, Component, Feature) are > unique. > > " > > > > Is there a way to get around the duplicate files or allow the duplication > > since they are going to the same location. > > > > Thx > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
