Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-30 Thread Christoffel le Roux
Hey, According to the log file the files are skipped because of the Modification Date, I'm currently doing a test using the 'version lying' with the DefaultVersion set. I'll let u guys know how it goes. Thanks :P -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: 29

Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-30 Thread Christoffel le Roux
Hey Phil, I'm all for the best route on getting all the files replaced, I have no idea how the file hashing works? Christoffel le Roux -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 October 2013 05:24 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I look at version lying as a necessary evil to subvert Windows Installer's insufficient costing story. There are ways of reducing the repair risk to zero. -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 October 2013 05:24 PM To: General discussion about

Re: [WiX-users] Patch Creation Properties example in manual not working

2013-10-30 Thread TimM
Ok, figured out what was wrong, operator error . I had my Upgrade and Target sourcefiles reversed. After I fixed that it worked as expected -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Fwd: GUI for wix

2013-10-30 Thread Wesley Manning
On wixtoolset.org there is a link to a book on wix. I recommend that and the tutorial at wix.tramontana.co.hu. -Original Message- From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com] Sent: October-29-13 6:36 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

[WiX-users] ICE38: ICE Internal Error 1002. API Returned: 1615 vs MSBUILDDISABLENODEREUSE

2013-10-30 Thread Tony
Any ideas why this happens (sometimes) only when using WiX during the build process? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14879411/wix-ice-validation-errors I have it happen (occasionally) in my local VS2012 builds. Often a rebuild and/or a clean-rebuild on the WiX solution will get me a good

[WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I would like to know if Burn could handle the following scenario. Consider the old pre-burn WiX single MSI distribution. Now consider the way it is today with small micropackges for wix, votive, sdk and son on. Now imagine the sum of those packages 1GB are call it the Big product.

Re: [WiX-users] ICE38: ICE Internal Error 1002. API Returned: 1615 vs MSBUILDDISABLENODEREUSE

2013-10-30 Thread ecyoung
ICE38: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12860316/ice38-component-installs-to-user-profile-error-for-a-specific-component ICE64: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4627861/wix-the-directory-is-in-the-user-profile-but-is-not-listed-in-the-removefile-tab ICE91:

[WiX-users] When does Windows Installer write install information to the registry

2013-10-30 Thread John L Krupka
A tester ran into an issue recently where the the machine got a BSOD near the end of an install. While there is not a problem with the install itself, the blue screen caused a strange side effect that I want to explain. The install log indicates the install was successful and product is on disk

Re: [WiX-users] When does Windows Installer write install information to the registry

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
That information is written out by the standard actions PublishComponents, PublishFeatures and PublishComponents actions. If this is reproducible, adding ! to the logging ( /l*v! ) instructs MSI to log each line immediately and can be useful in not missing any useful logging information

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: Errors installing 3.7

2013-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On 9/25/2013 2:47 PM, keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca wrote: Hi everyone, I thought I'd update the answer to my question from last week: For what it is worth, our server support team found KB931125, which seems to have been the correct one for Server 2003 R2 Enterprise. By the way don't install

Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-30 Thread Phil Wilson
If the issue is the modification date different from the creation date, make them the same with an early custom action. The reverse of this :) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2013/05/23/10421023.aspx Phil Wilson On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Christopher Painter

[WiX-users] Creating Cumulative patches with Patch Creation Properties

2013-10-30 Thread TimM
I am currently testing the creation of WiX patches using Patch Creation Properties. Now I am trying this over Pure WiX patches because the versions that we will initially be patching have already been released and when they were built they were NOT built to generate the .wixpdb files. So we have

Re: [WiX-users] ICE38: ICE Internal Error 1002. API Returned: 1615 vs MSBUILDDISABLENODEREUSE

2013-10-30 Thread Tony
I guess I could disable those three ICE validators as they always seem to be the ones that blow-up with the ICE Internal Error 1002. API Returned: 1615 error message. I was just wondering what is it about WiX build tasks/actions and/or the ICE validators that causes MSBUID to sometimes blow-up

Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
And a rollback CA and a commit CA and. :)If that works for you, fine. I won't call it a 'bad thing'.We all have to do dirty things now and then, don't we? :) My personal favoring is setting the installdir to C:\Progra~1\ grin.

Re: [WiX-users] ICE38: ICE Internal Error 1002. API Returned: 1615 vs MSBUILDDISABLENODEREUSE

2013-10-30 Thread ecyoung
See here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/731094/ghost-msbuild-exe-in-vs11-when-using-custom-task Sounds like you may need a Service Pack Quoting Tony yellowjacketl...@gmail.com: I guess I could disable those three ICE validators as they always seem to be the ones

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes. Two options one does as you describe, the other maybe less so (but might work better): 1. Bundle v1.1 is an upgrade of v1.0. Bundle v1.1 will need to know about the other 19 packages but you don't have to ship them. Burn will skip all the stuff that is already present on the machine.

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2013/10/30 Christopher Painter chr...@iswix.com: One approach would be that 1.1 is a web download installer that contains all 25 packages but will only download 5 of them. I'm not sure if Big product will buy into this or not though. As far as I know, shipping packages in the bundle vs

Re: [WiX-users] When does Windows Installer write install information to the registry

2013-10-30 Thread John L Krupka
Thanks. I can add this to the bug report for the tester to try. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/When-does-Windows-Installer-write-install-information-to-the-registry-tp7590115p7590125.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I like this idea. My customer is still mulling over web downloads. I'm pulling them into the 21st century and some execs are interested and some are not. From: Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:42 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Depending on what your custom environment is like as well... some gov shops don't give out internet access... so downloading is not an option... -Original Message- From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com] Sent: October-30-13 2:38 PM To: General discussion about the WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Wesley Manning
Right. Any packages that are beside the bundle exe will be used automatically and not be downloaded. It's good as allows me to use same bundle as both a web installer and an offline installer just by including the packages or not. -Original Message- From: Nicolás Alvarez

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
Understood. I spent several years of my life that I can't get back working in a SCIF. From: Steven Ogilvie steven.ogil...@titus.com Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:53 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.

[WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs

2013-10-30 Thread Wesley Manning
Hi, Can burn handle a mix of per-machine and per-user MSI packages? I thought I read somewhere it can't but can't find it. Wes -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: August-23-13 3:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Mensching
That doesn't sound right. If a file can't be found, the BA is provided the opportunity to provide the file via local file or URL. It is possible (haven't looked in a while) that if a file is in a container the container must be provided but that too can be provided by local file or URL.

Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes. Note: the presence of a per-user package makes the bundle per-user. -Original Message- From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of

Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs

2013-10-30 Thread Wesley Manning
Thanks. That makes sense. I'm installing drivers so need to have both. Can a per-user bundle upgrade or uninstall a per-machine bundle via relatedbundle element's attribute Action set to Upgrade? I have a per-machine bundle now. Thinking of switching my app to per-user. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Markus Wehrle
Installation of 1.1 will work with a minimum download of the 5 changed packages if you create a web installer in burn including all 25 packages. But what will happen with your installed version 1.0 in ARP? The entry will stay there. If your 1.0 package gets uninstalled it does not care about the

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
This customer has a full install of 400MB (apx), doesn't deliver to nearly that many customers and releases major releases once a quarter and updates every 2-3 weeks. Not all customers want the updates. Personally I think they are on the fringe of a single MSI major upgrade being OK but the

[WiX-users] Burn Password / Encryption Questions

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
I have a couple more queries regarding burn. Is there any way to password protect the bundle? If so, what level of encryption is used? Do download URL's support HTTPS? Is there any mechanism to support URL's that require authentication? Is it possible to have the packages encypted and

Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-30 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2013/10/30 Christopher Painter chr...@iswix.com: And a rollback CA and a commit CA and. :)If that works for you, fine. I won't call it a 'bad thing'.We all have to do dirty things now and then, don't we? :) My personal favoring is setting the installdir to C:\Progra~1\

Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
Trust me, I know what I'm doing. :) From: Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:42 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when

[WiX-users] LGHT0306 Error - less than 30K files

2013-10-30 Thread fiddler mikey
I believe I am getting an erroneous failure message when building a rather large Wix project. The project contains a total of 27,654 files in it, divided among 31 different cabs. However, after candle/light on the project, I get a failure after about 6 minutes and no output files are built. (No

Re: [WiX-users] ICE38: ICE Internal Error 1002. API Returned: 1615 vs MSBUILDDISABLENODEREUSE

2013-10-30 Thread Tony
Interesting, I'm sure I have the updates. I think I just installed Update 3 4-6 weeks ago. But I'll check my work machine in the morning. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, ecyo...@grandecom.net wrote: See here:

[WiX-users] XML Namespace Prefix Question

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
One of my sreens in ISWIX is the Namespace designer. It's a simple grid with checkboxes that display extension prefixes and target namespaces. I created this to make it easier to add references to things like the util namespace without looking it up all the time. All has been well and

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Password / Encryption Questions

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Mensching
1. Not today. Not sure what a BA could here on its own. 2. HTTPS is supported. 3. Authentication is supported. 4. No. -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 3:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Question

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Mensching
That doesn't sound right. If Bundle v1.1 is an upgrade of Bundle v1.0 then v1.0 will be removed after v1.1 is installed. Reference counting should mean the 20 packages are not removed if Bundle v1.1 lists them (as I noted below). -Original Message- From: Markus Wehrle

Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Mensching
I honestly don't remember... -Original Message- From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:22 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn bundle - mix of per-user and per-machine MSIs Thanks. That makes

[WiX-users] File version

2013-10-30 Thread Walter Dexter
Hi, folks. Sorry to ask such naive (and honestly, non-WiX) questions, but... when installing from an MSI, Windows Installer makes decisions on EXE files based on the file version resource in the file, right? I have a vendor releasing software to me where they've set the Product version in their

Re: [WiX-users] Burn installation with Aladdin eToken driver (msi) opens second burn's window.

2013-10-30 Thread Tobias Erichsen
Hi everyone, I was wondering if I should open a ticket for this issue if noone has done that so far... Best regards, Tobias Von: Tobias Erichsen [i...@tobias-erichsen.de] Gesendet: Montag, 14. Oktober 2013 17:11 Bis: General discussion for Windows