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

2013-10-31 Thread Phil Wilson
anks for all the help guys. > > Christoffel le Roux > > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] > Sent: 31 October 2013 01:12 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.; General discussion about > the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [Wi

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

2013-10-31 Thread Christoffel le Roux
ux -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: 31 October 2013 01:12 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.; General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch Trust

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" Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:42 PM To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch 2013/

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

2013-10-30 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2013/10/30 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. That's

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

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
-- From: "Phil Wilson" Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:43 AM To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch If the issue is the modification date different from the creation date, make them t

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

2013-10-30 Thread Phil Wilson
General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch > > Version lying is a bad thing! The basic issue is that the file on disk > (with no version) will never match the version you've put in the file > table. This mea

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

2013-10-30 Thread Christopher Painter
about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch Version lying is a bad thing! The basic issue is that the file on disk (with no version) will never match the version you've put in the file table. This means the product is always broken and is at risk of

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

2013-10-30 Thread Christoffel le Roux
olset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch Version lying is a bad thing! The basic issue is that the file on disk (with no version) will never match the version you've put in the file table. This means the product is always broken and is at risk of repeatedly trying

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

2013-10-30 Thread Christoffel le Roux
.@live.com] Sent: 29 October 2013 09:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch What did the log say happened? Blair From: Christoffel le Roux Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎October‎ ‎28‎, ‎2013 ‎6‎:‎08‎ ‎AM To: Ge

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

2013-10-29 Thread Phil Wilson
Version lying is a bad thing! The basic issue is that the file on disk (with no version) will never match the version you've put in the file table. This means the product is always broken and is at risk of repeatedly trying to repair itself. Regarding "let the user try to merge changes" - I wasn't

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

2013-10-29 Thread Blair Murri
What did the log say happened? Blair From: Christoffel le Roux Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎October‎ ‎28‎, ‎2013 ‎6‎:‎08‎ ‎AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Hi, When try to patch non-versioned files, the files does not get replaced when the file on the disk was chang

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

2013-10-28 Thread Christoffel le Roux
the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch It's safer strategy in these cases to update the existing file, and not destroy data that the user or the system may have entered. It should be just an Xml update, right? Phil Wilson On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:4

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

2013-10-28 Thread Phil Wilson
It's safer strategy in these cases to update the existing file, and not destroy data that the user or the system may have entered. It should be just an Xml update, right? Phil Wilson On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Christoffel le Roux < christoffe...@flowcentric.com> wrote: > Hi, When try to p

[WiX-users] Force replace files when applying patch

2013-10-28 Thread Christoffel le Roux
Hi, When try to patch non-versioned files, the files does not get replaced when the file on the disk was changed by the user, I know this is by design, but I need to patch some configuration files that the user was allowed to update, lets say it's a web.config file, when some additional content