I see, validation is used during patch application. Regarding the patch family I have defined only one family, following the example from Peter's blog and changing a few attributes like Manifacturer, DisplayName and similar. In my case that should be sufficient because the product has only one feature which contains all the components.
I have simply copy-pasted the list of component references from the Feature element in Product.wxs to PatchFamily element in Patch.wsx. I have tested Torch and Pyro behavior when two input wixout files are identical and it is pretty much exactly the behavior that I get - except that binary comparison, sizes and creation dates on my wixouts show beyond doubt that I haven't committed such a stupid, albeit very easy to make, mistake. -----Original Message----- From: Heath Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:39 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does Pyro (or Torch) ignore 4-th version number? The -val switch is actually to set transform validation flags and has nothing to do with validation during generation. See http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/09/13/transform-validation-in-wix-patch-build.aspx for more information about that feature. Have you defined patch families in your patch authoring? If you don't or if you don't reference all the right fragments, the content of those fragments is ignored. You can find more information about patch families at http://blogs.msdn.com/pmarcu/archive/2007/04/27/wix-patchfamily-patch-filtering.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/05/08/patch-families-can-only-ever-grow.aspx, and http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/01/14/patch-families-in-wix-and-windows-installer.aspx . On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Tony Juricic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Are you saying that there is some way to get better error diagnostics > from Torch? > I added -v option for verbosity but it has no effect. > > In fact, I can't even figure out how do validation flags validate?! > > For example, once I run Torch with -val y, next time with -val v, > keeping the same wixout input files. I would expect some validation > error to be reported: I mean, update versions of my DLLs can't be both > larger and smaller than the target versions! > > However Torch reports no issues in either case, just silently outputs > wixmst file which, according to Pyro, contains 120 MB of nothing. > > I certainly have-p option which is essential according to Peter's blog. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:04 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does Pyro (or Torch) ignore 4-th version > number? > > There is a share proderrors or something > > > > Pete Yates > Senior Systems Developer > DDC - Distributed & Components Team > HBOS I&I IT > B/1/C/243 > (7725) 34383 / (0117) 376 4383 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony > Juricic > Sent: 31 July 2008 15:56 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Does Pyro (or Torch) ignore 4-th version number? > > I have 120 MB large Wixmst created by Torch and when I pass it to Pyro > it comes back with the message PYRO1079 saying that patch cabinet > contains no files. > > > > My DLLs in RTM and Update respectively differ in the last, 4-th version > number, plus the binaries themselves are different. Using SDK tools for > patch creation these DLLs would be updated when applying the patch. I > tested that long before I started using WiX and I am 100% sure that SDK > doesn't ignore fourth version number for file substitution rules. > > > > So I am wondering if Pyro is ignoring binary differences if first 3 > version numbers are the same? > > > > Patch.wxs content is the following: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> > > <Patch AllowRemoval="yes" Classification="Update" Codepage="1252" ... > various other attributes> > > > > <Media Id="1000" Cabinet="RTM.cab" EmbedCab="yes"> > > <PatchBaseline Id="RTM"/> > > </Media> > > > > <PatchFamily Id="MyPatchFamily" Version="1.0.0" Supersede="yes"> > > > > <ComponentRef Id="some component" /> > > ... a bunch of components follows > > </PatchFamily> > > </Patch> > > </Wix> > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > . > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------------------------------- > > HBOS plc, Registered in Scotland No. SC218813. 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