Hi, Was wondering if somebody could help. I'm trying to create a patch (MSP) for my installation and have being following the tutorial on http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php Which has been very helpful.
I had the original wixpdb for my original installation, which was handy :) So following the instructions from the above page, I thought that I would start with the a simple project first.. So created the following wix project: <!--------------- Original install.wxs - Start ---------------!> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <Product Id="48C49ACE-90CF-4161-9C6E-9162115A54DD" Name="WiX Patch Example Product" Language="1033" Version="1.0.0" Manufacturer="Dynamo Corporation" UpgradeCode="48C49ACE-90CF-4161-9C6E-9162115A54DD"> <Package Compressed="yes" Description="Installs a file that will be patched." Comments="This Product does not install any executables" InstallerVersion="200" InstallScope="perMachine" /> <Media Id="1" Cabinet="product.cab" EmbedCab="yes" /> <FeatureRef Id="SampleProductFeature"/> </Product> <Fragment> <Feature Id="SampleProductFeature" Title="Sample Product Feature" Level="1"> <ComponentRef Id="SampleComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="Sample2"/> </Feature> </Fragment> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="SampleProductFolder"> <Component Id="SampleComponent" Guid="{C28843DA-EF08-41CC-BA75-D2B99D8A1983}" DiskId="1"> <File Id="SampleFile" Name="Sample.txt" Source="$(var.ProjectDir)..\Files\org\Readme.txt"/> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="SampleProductFolder"> <Component Id="Sample2" Guid="{923248E0-B4B5-4c8c-B343-420EE64CEF88}" DiskId="1"> <File Id="SampleFile2" Name="Sample2.txt" Source="$(var.ProjectDir)..\Files\org\Readme2.txt"/> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> <Fragment> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder" Name="PFiles"> <Directory Id="SampleProductFolder" Name="Patch Sample Directory"> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Fragment> </Wix> <!--------------- Original install.wxs - End ---------------!> Build the install.wxs project in the normal way to get the install.wixpdb Then duplicated the original install.wxs to fixed.wxs and then duplicated the 2 original txt files, altered the content of both. Then altered fixed.wxs as follows: <!--------------- Fixed.wxs - Start ---------------!> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <Product Id="48C49ACE-90CF-4161-9C6E-9162115A54DD" Name="WiX Patch Example Product" Language="1033" Version="1.0.1" Manufacturer="Dynamo Corporation" UpgradeCode="48C49ACE-90CF-4161-9C6E-9162115A54DD"> <Package Compressed="yes" Description="Installs a file that will be patched." Comments="This Product does not install any executables" InstallerVersion="200" InstallScope="perMachine" /> <Media Id="1" Cabinet="product.cab" EmbedCab="yes" /> <FeatureRef Id="SampleProductFeature"/> </Product> <Fragment> <Feature Id="SampleProductFeature" Title="Sample Product Feature" Level="1"> <ComponentRef Id="SampleComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="Sample2" /> </Feature> </Fragment> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="SampleProductFolder"> <Component Id="SampleComponent" Guid="{C28843DA-EF08-41CC-BA75-D2B99D8A1983}" DiskId="1"> <File Id="SampleFile" Name="Sample.txt" Source="$(var.ProjectDir)..\Files\Patch1\Readme.txt"/> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="SampleProductFolder"> <Component Id="Sample2" Guid="{923248E0-B4B5-4c8c-B343-420EE64CEF88}" DiskId="1"> <File Id="SampleFile2" Name="Sample2.txt" Source="$(var.ProjectDir)..\Files\Patch1\Readme2.txt" /> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> <Fragment> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder" Name="PFiles"> <Directory Id="SampleProductFolder" Name="Patch Sample Directory"> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Fragment> </Wix> <!--------------- Fixed.wxs - End ---------------!> Build the fixed.wxs project in the normal way to get the fixed.wixpdb I then created a patch.wxs to create the MSP: <!--------------- Patch.wxs - Start ---------------!> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <Patch AllowRemoval="yes" Manufacturer="Dynamo Corp" MoreInfoURL="http://www.dynamocorp.com/"; DisplayName="Sample Patch" Description="Small Update Patch" Classification="Update" OptimizedInstallMode="yes" > <Media Id="5000" Cabinet="RTM.cab"> <PatchBaseline Id="RTM"/> </Media> <PatchFamily Id='SamplePatchFamily' ProductCode="48C49ACE-90CF-4161-9C6E-9162115A54DD" Version='1.0.1' Supersede='no'> <ComponentRef Id="SampleComponent"/> </PatchFamily> </Patch> </Wix> <!--------------- Patch.wxs - End ---------------!> Then ran the following commands: torch -p -xi install.wixpdb fixed.wixpdb -out Diff.wixmst candle.exe patch.wxs -out patch.wixobj light.exe patch.wixobj -out patch.wixmsp pyro.exe patch.wixmsp -out patch.msp -t RTM Diff.wixmst This build the MSP. I installed the installed the original msi (install.msi), then installed ran the patch.msp. It managed to upgrade the txt files, but to my surprise it upgraded both txt files!! I had only specified in the Patch.wxs the component 'SampleComponent' to be included in the patch.. But seemed to have updated everything.. I check this using Orca and it appeared that the it was updating all components. Is there a know problem or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks whgibbo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
