I think the part you are missing is " all changed components from that fragment will show up in your patch". I can't imagine only wanting a patch to contain a subset of changed components.
-----Original Message----- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 11:40 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] [Patch] Best practice using fragments I am relatively new to WiX 3.7 and MSI (and having lots of fun with the great WiX documentation and information available in the forum). As I get my BA/msi functional I am trying to review best practices and I came across a post at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471424/wix-tricks-and-tips In particular: "Put Components which may be patched individually inside their own Fragments It goes for both making product installers and patches that if you include any component in a fragment, you must include all of the components in that fragment. In the case of building an installer, if you miss any component references, you'll get a linking error from light.exe. However, when you make a patch, if you include a single component reference in a fragment, then all changed components from that fragment will show up in your patch." I hope to always do Major Update builds. and the boss seems to agree. However the boss may change his mind and at some point expect me to create a patch. I have tried to implement the 'one resource per component' pattern with auto generated GUIDs, in logical ComponentGroups of related files. I have one ComponentGroup per Fragment. But if we did do a patch, I expect that they would only want to change one or two files and not include all of the files in a ComponentGroup. Now I am wondering if I need to go back and restructure my project to only have 'one component pre fragment' (and I guess this means not use ComponentGroups)? Other than the above post, I did not find this suggestion of creating one fragment per file discussed in any other forum or tutorial. I tried to follow the structure of the WiX 3.7 tools setup and that seems to be working as I test my project. I guess I am looking for advice on best practice to be ready to do a patch if I really have too someday down the road. Thanks; Phill -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Patch-Best-practice-using-fragments-tp7587660.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
