Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?

2010-08-13 Thread Neil Sleightholm
: Thu 12/08/2010 21:30 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl? Thanks Neil. I've been trying out different scenarios with sending the output of my MSI build to a network share and viewing the permissions of the MSI. But I must be missing something. Do

[WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?

2010-08-12 Thread Nick Ramirez
Can anyone tell me when you would use Light's -sacl flag? I found this post: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/LGHT1032-Unable-to-reset-acls-on-destination-files-td689045.html#a689046 but I don't understand it. Is this flag used when sending the output of a WiX build

Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?

2010-08-12 Thread Neil Sleightholm
If you are building on a network drive you will often find it can't set permissions on the file when it finishes building. I have to say I am not sure why it needs to reset permissions. Neil Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.com On 12 Aug 2010, at 16:08, Nick Ramirez nickra...@hotmail.com

Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?

2010-08-12 Thread Nick Ramirez
Thanks Neil. I've been trying out different scenarios with sending the output of my MSI build to a network share and viewing the permissions of the MSI. But I must be missing something. Do you have an example of the permissions problem? -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?

2010-08-12 Thread Nick Ramirez
Okay. Now I see what you mean. I can see how the -sacl flag affects the output MSI. I followed these steps: 1. Create a folder to send the output of the build to, call it something like Output 2. Set the permissions on that folder to not inherit their permissions from the parent folder and then