In your Hotfix.wxs file, do you have any children of any of your PatchFamily elements?
There was an issue some months ago of some binding data missing from the wixpdb files. Merge module data is added during binding if I recall correctly (I haven't verified that). If you don't have any children elements of the PatchFamily element, you may want to try using the MSIs instead of the WIXPDBs (you lose some of the metadata but you don't seem to be consuming it). You would need to "perform" an administrative installation of both MSIs. If they require administrator privileges to install, they likely will also require administrator privileges to "admin install" as well. Note that I haven't tried it myself, so I don't know if there would be any other issues. -----Original Message----- From: Gremlin [mailto:postingpl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:25 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching & MergeModules I call torch like this: torch.exe -p -xi Baseline\App.wixpdb Hotfix\App.wixpdb -out Diff.wixmst then I candlelight the Hotfix.wxs: candle.exe Hotfix.wxs -out Hotfix.wixobj light.exe Hotfix.wixobj -out Hotfix.wixmsp then I execute pyro: pyro.exe Hotfix.wixmsp -out Hotfix01.msp -t RTM Diff.wixmst -sa Actually I've never created a hotfix where the changes were made within the merge modules, so I dont know what's best practice. I thought I have to create the patch like I used to create it - by using the msi which contains the msm. Thank's, Chris Blair-2 wrote: > > Which files are you passing to torch? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gremlin [mailto:postingpl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:54 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Patching & MergeModules > > > Hi there, > > How can I patch MergeModules with pyro when they are packed in an msi? > > My problem: > I have an msi with an msm included and I create the patches with pyro.exe > The patching works when I have to create a patch witch new files that are > defined in the msi. As soon as I get a new msm which contains new files > for > a hotfix, the generated patch contains no files of the msm. > > Thank's, > Chris > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Patching---MergeModules-tp3349864p3349864.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Patching---MergeModules-tp3349864p3354709.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
