Sorry to revive such an old thread, but I'm having some troubles with a very similar situation as the one I previously described.
I ended up going with Rob's first suggestion - the Bundle has A.msi, B.msi, C.msi, B.msp, and C.msp (B.msi and C.msi are not embedded and not included). So far we haven't been releasing patches for A (since it's fairly small it's easier to just do major upgrades). We've released several updates and are now on version 1.0.5. 1.0.5 was a fairly large change, so we released it as a major update. We now want to release a fix to A (to bring it up to 1.0.6), and leave B and C alone. B and C add up to over 1GB of data (hence the reason for the patches to being with), so we obviously don't want our users to have to re-download a full update. I've tried both removing the B.msp and C.msp, and generating actual empty patches for them, but in both cases A gets updated and B and C get removed. Here is a pared down version of my wxs file: <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <?define ProductVersion="1.0.6" ?> <?define ProductName="Product" ?> <?define UpgradeCode="UPGRADE_GUID" ?> <?define Manufacturer="Company" ?> <Bundle Name="$(var.ProductName)" Version="$(var.ProductVersion)" Manufacturer="$(var.Manufacturer)" UpgradeCode="$(var.UpgradeCode)"> <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" > <bal:WixStandardBootstrapperApplication LicenseFile="$(var.AssetsPath)\License.rtf" SuppressOptionsUI="yes" /> </BootstrapperApplicationRef> <Chain> <MsiPackage SourceFile="A.msi" DisplayInternalUI="no"> <MsiProperty Name="INSTALLFOLDER" Value="[InstallFolder]" /> </MsiPackage> <MsiPackage SourceFile="B.msi" DisplayInternalUI="no" Compressed="no"> <SlipstreamMsp Id="B_Patch" /> </MsiPackage> <MsiPackage SourceFile="C.msi" DisplayInternalUI="no" Compressed="no"> <SlipstreamMsp Id="C_Patch" /> </MsiPackage> <MspPackage Id="B_Patch" SourceFile="B_Patch.msp" DisplayInternalUI="no" Compressed="yes" /> <MspPackage Id="C_Patch" SourceFile="C_Patch.msp" DisplayInternalUI="no" Compressed="yes" /> </Chain> </Bundle> </Wix> -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Chaining-MSPs-tp7591695p7594241.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
