I can confirm this now that I produced two MSIs that don't have any component rules problems. Some history of this problem can be found in posts titled 'Does Pyro (or Torch) ignore 4-th version number?'.
I have 2 MSIs and 2 corresponding binary wixout files. Using new patching with wixout input produced a msp file which applied transformation to the original database (i.e. I could see that product version was changed in ARP after patch application) but none of the binary files were changed. In particular all updated exes and dlls had new and larger version numbers and should have been patched too. Using old-style patching, meaning: -MSIs were decompressed using administrative install -PatchCreation WiX element was used in Patch.wxs -MsiMsp.exe was used to produce msp from pcp. applied patch both to the database and to the installed binary files. I could verify that all exe and dll version numbers were upped despite *erroneous* warnings in the log produced by msimsp.exe like: INFO Comparing Files: C:\wixpatchbin\Build2081\admin\...\some.exe C:\wixpatchbin\Build2082\admin\.. some.exe... INFO Comparing bytes... WARNING: File versions for target file: C:\wixpatchbin\Build2081\admin\...\soome.exe and upgrade file: C:\wixpatchbin\Build2082\admin\...\some.exe are same, while the files itself are different. INFO Different content... INFO File Key: SOME.EXE is modified These warnings come from the wrong assumption that everything related to Windows installer should respect only 3 upper version numbers according to an explanation given by Stefan Krueger when I asked about it on InstallSite forum. I can file this as a bug, unless there are suggestions on other things to try. From my perspective Torch and Pyro are not yet in the shape to be reliable tools for binary patching. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
