The file versioning rules apply even when patching. You could try tweaking the REINSTALLMODE property, but it affects ALL files in the feature(s) selected for reinstallation (whether in the patch or not).
-----Original Message----- From: tome...@qualisystems.com [mailto:tome...@qualisystems.com] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 10:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?! Thanks for the reply! I did find reference to a file I was concerned about... The problem is, that I changed the file locally on the "customers" machine, then I installed the patch, the file wasn't replaced... that led me to think that there was something wrong with the patch... By the way the file name appears 11 times in the wixmst file... Is there a way to create a patch that always replaces all the files it has? -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:24 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?! Torch marks up the database changes. Including -p causes it to leave the unchanged portions of the database intact so they will be present for Pyro to use in its processing. It is Pyro that looks at the two files and determines if they are the same or not, and it "promotes" files that compare as different to be considered as "changed" and thus be included with the other marked database changes. If you use WIXOUT or WIXPDB files then fragment boundaries are considered in the comparisons, so if you specify references to things to include in your patch family/families, things that are not in any referenced fragments are ignored (by design). Look for the files you are concerned with in the WIXMST file. You should find either paths or references to cabinet-ids for both the updated and the previous versions of the files. Blair -----Original Message----- From: tome...@qualisystems.com [mailto:tome...@qualisystems.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:19 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?! I'm creating a patch, I'm not sure that the patch includes all of my files even though I'm passing the -p flag to the torch.exe. Can someone please explain to me the logic that torch uses to determine what files are included in the patch. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
