Thanks John for prodding me in the right direction. After looking around a bit more (particularly Peter Marcu's blog entry of 30-May-2008) I did admin installs such as the following :
"msiexec /a orig\setupproject1.msi TARGETDIR=c:\wix\admin" "msiexec /a new\setupproject1.msi TARGETDIR=c:\wix\admin2" Then I ran torch with the -ax option : "torch -ax c:\wix\admin2 -p -xo c:\wix\admin\setupproject1.msi c:\wix\admin2\setupproject1.msi -out patch\diff2.wixmst" This seemed to work as desired. -Rob -- As the error message implies, you need to do an /admin install of the MSI before running pyro/torch so that it has access to the files if you don't want to use wixpdb's. -- John Merryweather Cooper Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (Premier Tech, Inc.) Build & Install Engineer - jXchange Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 JoCooper@... -----Original Message----- From: robert_yang@... [mailto:robert_yang@...] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:18 PM To: wix-users@... Subject: [WiX-users] Patches: torch MSI or WIXPDB ? Hi all - I've been experimenting with torch/pyro/patching on our Wix installer, which I'm proud to say has completely replaced InstallShield for our application. The thing I'm wondering about is this: do you have to use .wixpdb files as input to torch, or can you use .msi's instead ? The docs imply the answer is "yes". Everything works fine if I try using .wixpdb's but if I use .msi's I get the following error from pyro : "pyro.exe : error PYRO0315 : Source information is required for the product '{GUID omitted}'. If you ran torch.exe with both target and updated .msi files, you must first perform an administrative installation of both .msi files then pass -a when running torch.exe." Here's how I invoked torch : "torch -p -xo orig\SetupProject1.msi new\SetupProject1.msi -out patch\diff2.wixmst" Are .wixpdb's really necessary to get this to work ? Do the .MSI's not contain enough info by themselves ? Thanks for any info ! -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
