I'll try to experiment with that sometime today. My assumption (from the bug-report comment) was that pyro or torch used the original source paths for the files, which won't be the same as the administrative install locations for my installers.
This is all very strange to me. I feel like I must be misunderstanding something. :P - John John Cooper-2 wrote: > > If you do an admin install from the source and target MSI's, you get the > files. > > -- > John Merryweather Cooper > Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. > Build & Install Engineer - jXchange > Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 > JoCooper@ > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: john.burak [mailto:john.burak@] > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:39 PM > To: wix-users@.sourceforge > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patch with a simple file change > > I browsed the bug database and eventually found out " > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2086871&group_id=105970&atid=642714 > pyro actually diffs the files on disk " and not from inside the MSIs. In > other words, the 'before' and 'after' copy of files have to exist at the > same time in different source directories. > > That's annoying because then I have to keep old copies of files (multiple > gigs in large directory structure) in addition to the copies of these > files are already in the previous MSIs. I think I have to make sure that > the source paths for files point to the correct directory structures (old > vs. > new). It would be nice if pyro just fetched them from the MSIs. > > I think this will be a feature request. ;) > > - John > > -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Patch-with-a-simple-file-change-tp6956231p6960265.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
