If you also sign the MSI and include the public "thumbprint" of the certificate, it's also possible to apply future patches without admin rights (if you are patching outside of the bundle). I don't believe burn supports LUA patching.
-----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 2:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Digitally Signing a Bootstrapper by hand The approach I use is outlined here http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/wix-burn-tipstricks.html See "Signing a package" at the bottom. Neil >hello! > >I'm building a Bootstrapper WiX setup system with shell scripts (not >using VS), and struggling to get the setup going completely. I hope >somebody can shed some light on the process: > >Here is my process: > >i. I have a (signed) EXE in my project. I build an MSI for this with >MyProduct.wxs ii. I then bundle this and a requirement component using >Burn with BundleSetup.wxs > > >So, my questions are: > > >1. What exactly do I need to sign apart from the actual running EXE? >The MSI *and* the resulting Burn setup.exe, or just one? >2. Any suggestions on the combination of insignia and signtool I need >to use to get this all working? > > >I've been trying various sequences of these two tools and not having >much luck. Either the insignia fails, or the resulting setup.exe does >the fail on 0x80004005 while extracting files, which seems to indicate >bad signing. > > >Any pointers or suggestions appreciated. Documentation is hard to >track down on this one Š > > >cheers, >marc. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- >---- >Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite >for free today: >http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
