Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder?

2013-10-23 Thread Phil Wilson
: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:15 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder? A patch that is an update to installed components doesn't need to know folder locations unless you need to specify them

Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder?

2013-10-23 Thread Dror, Tomer
23, 2013 7:04 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder? Use the WiX remember property pattern if you want to preserve the value of INSTALLFOLDER from the original install. Phil Wilson On Tue, Oct

Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder?

2013-10-23 Thread Phil Wilson
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder? Use the WiX remember property pattern if you want to preserve the value of INSTALLFOLDER from the original install. Phil Wilson On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10

Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder?

2013-10-23 Thread Dror, Tomer
[phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 7:04 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder? Use the WiX remember property pattern if you want to preserve the value of INSTALLFOLDER from

[WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder?

2013-10-22 Thread tom
I wonder when running a patch bundle how the patch bundle (acatually the MSP) knows what is the install folder used by the RTM? Looks like we are missing this values in the MSP and many of the registration we do use a directory defined in wix msp project Thanks in advance -- View this

Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder?

2013-10-22 Thread Phil Wilson
A patch that is an update to installed components doesn't need to know folder locations unless you need to specify them for some other reason. For an update of component C-Guid of product code P-Guid it can locate the path to any component (as can any program) by calling MsiGetComponentPath

Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder?

2013-10-22 Thread Dror, Tomer
. From: Phil Wilson [phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:15 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching with BURN-how a patch knows about original install folder? A patch that is an update to installed components doesn't need