Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-10 Thread Spud
Thanks Neil, I knew security would be an issue / can of worms, but at least I can now stop looking for something that doesn't exist :) Cheers again. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-create-and-reference-a-custom-pre-requisite

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-10 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Support for username/password is not available today, you could add it to the url using something like http://username:passw...@site.com/ (not sure this work but might be worth trying). I would point out that it won't be very secure as the contents of the bundle could be extracted to reveal the pa

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-10 Thread Spud
OK thanks, I think I'm getting there So, I have my MsiPackage for my download... https://mycompany.com/downloads/blahblah/sharedcomponents.msi"; DisplayName="Shared Components" Compressed="no" Vital="yes"> One piece of missing info I cannot find in the docume

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-09 Thread Hoover, Jacob
MsiPackage/@Compressed = No -Original Message- From: Spud [mailto:andysmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package Hi Raj, thanks for your response. I

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-09 Thread Spud
Hi Raj, thanks for your response. I can put all the third party components in their own MSI (in fact I have now done just that) but since the MSI is currently within the Bootstrapper.exe its self it will always get downloaded with each update. *How* do I set this "thirdpartycomponents.msi" up to

Re: [WiX-users] How to create and reference a custom pre-requisite package

2013-04-08 Thread ptr
In my investigation I have found that if you have seldom changing thirdparty components... give them their own msi's and tie down there version/product code. The boostrapper that the thirdparty msi of the required version is already installed and doesn't seem to download or install it. -Raj On