Take a look at Burn in WiX v3.6. It handles all this stuff correctly.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Jordan Dressman jdr...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to create a bootstrapper that checks for and installs the .net
framework 4.0 client profile. (I don't want to ship the 42MB .net
installer, prefer dlinstall)I also want to log the warnings and errors of
the msi on all installs, so I can provide them in error reports. So, how
do I provide args to the msiexec?Lastly, I would prefer to have a self
contained package instead of an msi and an exe. I am going by this approach
atm, but I don't think this can address all of my concerns above:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/install_dotnet.htm I came across
this response by Rob to the question of embedding the msi in the
bootstrapper, are these still concerns? Oct 05, 2006:You have to extract
it. The Windows Installer engine doesn't know how to read MSI files out of
resource streams.
Besides, you're going to want to put the MSI in a place where future
repair operations can find it.
Otherwise the user will get prompted to find an MSI that is hidden inside
your boostrapper (which may or may not be around anymore).
You can see the setup.exe with WiX v3 caches.
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Embedding-MSI-in-a-bootstrapper-td694822.html
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