Hi Phill, This, while helpful to some degree doesn't tell me whether or not I should be using the CAB files (how?) in my WiX bootstrappers or whether I should use the MSUs. I see that to use pkgmgr correctly one needs a XML file (manifest) to do so. Since I was not given such a thing outside the CABs, is it that I would have to extract the contents, look for an _manifest_.cix.xml (??? - I see that in one of the CABs) and use that? That doesn't sound pleasant from the WiX point of view. Is one supposed to use a custom action here?
Is it true that WSUS downloads the MSUs and then processes them? I got that impression from several Microsoft articles. If so, would our WSUS server have the original MSU files somewhere? (I'm doing this all for an unattended installation experience for machines with intermittent network connections, no savvy users and no administrator privileges.) Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 [email protected] Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -----Original Message----- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March-04-14 9:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSU / raw cab More information: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/03/11/8163455.aspx You might run into this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928636 I appreciated the information posted in another thread on this general issue about the Wix::MsuPackage element. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/MSU-raw-cab-tp7593094p7593096.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
