Hello, I have a minor upgrade to my installer package where I would like to remove some files. I plan on distributing the new MSI and well as a patch for existing installations. The files in question live alone in their own components.
For the patch to work, I understand that I cannot remove components. What I have done instead is to set the components containing the files I want to remove to be Transitive. Then I set the Condition on the component to FALSE, so that the component will never get installed and it will be removed when the patch is applied (since I REINSTALL the feature in question). With these settings, the files should never get installed. So it seems silly to have them taking up space in the embedded CAB I use to hold my files. What I have done is created another, external, CAB file (a unique DiskID) and set my removed components to live there. I would like to distribute the MSI and MSP without this external CAB file. I have done initial testing with this scenario and regular installs and patches work as I expected. My question to the experts is: if I do not distribute the external CAB file with my package, can I run into problems at some point? Thanks, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
