Correct. With no patch families defined, we do pick up all changes but then the
MsiPatchSequence table isn't generated. Various MSI3+ features are keyed off
the existence of this table (and it cannot be empty - I tried and MSI fails
immediately to apply such a patch; other MSI3+ features like uninstall are
keyed off of MsiPatchMetadata). So adding a patch family is necessary for the
right behavior, so the <All/> element I added allows for the same build
behavior to pull in all changes (though I exclude ProductCode since MSPs must
not change it - this is from the MSI team themselves) while allowing for the
creation of user-defined patch families.
Heath Stewart
Software Design Engineer
Visual Studio, Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:27:34 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] The One Patch
>
> I have one patch family authored that is empty and I'm experiencing similar
> problem. I'm using WiX 3.5. Could it be that the cause of this behavior is
> the same as when no patch families are authored?
>
> Regards,
>
> Zlatko Lovcevic
>
>
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