Re: [WiX-users] Repair Problem
Check out the File Versioning Rules topic in the MSI SDK. It explains this behavior. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Sanjay Poria wrote: > My company moved to using msi around a year and I authored a major product > release and subsequent patch files (small update msp's that do not > increment the baseline version) using wix. The product contains a number > of binary files. Recently we had an issue where the customer manually > replaced a couple of the binary files (.pdb) in the Program Files install > area. Now, there was a later issue which meant that they wanted to go back > to the latest installed version so we suggested just doing a "Repair" of > the product from the control panel... Unfortunately the repair had no > effect on the binary files and did not replace them with the version in the > latest installed product. > > After some research I find that if I manually run a repair with the /fo > flag (the default), the files are not replaced, but if I run it with /fd, > they are replaced as expected. > > The help says > o - Reinstalls if file is missing or an older version is installed. > d - Reinstalls if file is missing or a different version is installed. > > > My questions are: > - Why didn't msiexec realise the file was different based on the > differing timestamp > - More worrying, when doing a repair from the control panel, the > repair clearly fails for all/some of the files, but we get no error > message. Should we tell the client to always run it from the command line? > Can we build this option into the original msi and what are the downsides > of this? > - Clearly the customer is breaking some best practises by > overwriting files in the Program Files area but I did expect they would be > safe because the repair would work. Are there some rules we can give to the > customer to follow in the future? > > Any help is appreciated (especially because I know this is really a MSI > issue and not a Wix one). > Regards > sanjay > > -- > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial > Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support > Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services > Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > ___ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] CustomTables & BootstrapperApplicationData
I am trying to create a custom table and making the content available for Burn/CustomMBA via the BootstrapperApplicationData.xml. When creating a custom table inside my MSI product using the following excample (from http://blog.torresdal.net/2008/10/24/wix-and-dtf-using-a-custom-action-to-list-available-web-sites-on-iis/) it is included in the MSI which I checked with http://code.google.com/p/lessmsi/ . > >Type="int" Width="4" /> >PrimaryKey="no"/> >PrimaryKey="no"/> >Nullable="yes"/> >PrimaryKey="no" Nullable="yes"/> > > 0 > Bogus > 0 > > > > Changing the table attributes from > to > BootstrapperApplicationData="yes"> does not create the table instide the MSI file anymore nor does it create the entries in BoostrapperApplicationData.xml Should the tables be in the MSI only if BootstrapperApplicationData="no" or not defined or should the tables be always in the MSI file? What's the correct way to get the table content into the BootstrapperApplicationData.xml as well? Thanks for your support, Best regards chefkoch -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Repair Problem
My company moved to using msi around a year and I authored a major product release and subsequent patch files (small update msp's that do not increment the baseline version) using wix. The product contains a number of binary files. Recently we had an issue where the customer manually replaced a couple of the binary files (.pdb) in the Program Files install area. Now, there was a later issue which meant that they wanted to go back to the latest installed version so we suggested just doing a "Repair" of the product from the control panel... Unfortunately the repair had no effect on the binary files and did not replace them with the version in the latest installed product. After some research I find that if I manually run a repair with the /fo flag (the default), the files are not replaced, but if I run it with /fd, they are replaced as expected. The help says o - Reinstalls if file is missing or an older version is installed. d - Reinstalls if file is missing or a different version is installed. My questions are: - Why didn't msiexec realise the file was different based on the differing timestamp - More worrying, when doing a repair from the control panel, the repair clearly fails for all/some of the files, but we get no error message. Should we tell the client to always run it from the command line? Can we build this option into the original msi and what are the downsides of this? - Clearly the customer is breaking some best practises by overwriting files in the Program Files area but I did expect they would be safe because the repair would work. Are there some rules we can give to the customer to follow in the future? Any help is appreciated (especially because I know this is really a MSI issue and not a Wix one). Regards sanjay -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] run Sql commands through wix
Suitable de-fanged: -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: John H Bergman (XPedient) [mailto:john.berg...@xpdnt.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:39 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] run Sql commands through wix Does anyone have an example of this they could share or point me to? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:09 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] run Sql commands through wix See the Sql elements in the wix.chm. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Chaitanya wrote: > Hi, > > I want to run Sql commands through Wix,like insert,update,create. > > How to run sql commands through Wix. > > Suggest me > > Thanks, > > Chaitanya. > > > -- > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free > Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant > support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more > value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue > delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > ___ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Alter Packages in Custom BA? [BURN]
You can use the InstallCondition attribute of MsiPackage (or ExePackage or MsuPackage) to control whether a package is installed. If InstallCondition evaluates to true, then the package is installed, but if InstallCondition evaluates to false, then the package will be removed unless it's permanent. I have a few numeric variables that I set to 1 if I want certain packages installed, or 0 if I don't. Alternatively, I think you can listen for the PlanPackageComplete event and force Burn to install or ignore a particular package from your bootstrapper application, though I haven't tried that myself. Nicholas On 11 December 2012 16:07, Bull, Thomas wrote: > I am making a custom bootstrapper WPF UI to allow consumers to select > which MSIs and specific features within MSIs to install. I think I have my > head around how to select features within an MSI by setting > Engine.StringVariables["TEMPVAR"] and then setting an MSIProperty to that > Burn variable. I define the variable in my bundle.wxs like so: > > > > Please correct my logic if the above assumption is wrong! > > What I can't seem to figure out is how to conditionally install an MSI > based on a burn variable value. After I set the variable value I run > Engine.Detect() and then Engine.Plan(LaunchAction.Layout). However, I > don't see my variable's value updated in the log, nor do I see the > condition test executed. Can anyone provide some insight as how to proceed > with programmatically updating my burn plan? > > Thanks for the previous help and for taking the time with this question! > > -- > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial > Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support > Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services > Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > ___ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Bundles in Bundles: How? (v3.7 wix Bundle Reference Counting feature)
Hi, Question for one of the developers maybe. I'm using the bundle addon feature which is working good. Now I want to include a couple of the addon bundles I created in the main bundle (my main installer). How do I include bundles in bundles? There is ExePackage and MsiPackage but no BundlePackage. I thought this was a feature in v3.7 (or do I need to use EXE package?). I have wix 3.7.1204.0 installed. Thanks, Wes -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Alter Packages in Custom BA? [BURN]
I am making a custom bootstrapper WPF UI to allow consumers to select which MSIs and specific features within MSIs to install. I think I have my head around how to select features within an MSI by setting Engine.StringVariables["TEMPVAR"] and then setting an MSIProperty to that Burn variable. I define the variable in my bundle.wxs like so: Please correct my logic if the above assumption is wrong! What I can't seem to figure out is how to conditionally install an MSI based on a burn variable value. After I set the variable value I run Engine.Detect() and then Engine.Plan(LaunchAction.Layout). However, I don't see my variable's value updated in the log, nor do I see the condition test executed. Can anyone provide some insight as how to proceed with programmatically updating my burn plan? Thanks for the previous help and for taking the time with this question! -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
