First: Load your MSI into Orca, then apply your MSP (in Orca) and look at the Patch table. Are there entries in there for files that you don't think you changed? Look in the File table. Did the sequence number change on any files you don't think you changed?
If you have a decent XML editor/viewer, look at the wixmst file you passed to pyro (that you generated using torch). Look for the WixFile table and find the Source values in each row. Is the value of the field element containing the path to the file (the seventh element in each row) the same as the value of that element's previousData attribute? If not, compare the files in both locations to ensure they are really byte-for-byte the same. Non-PE files (including PE+ files) don't parse well in extracting their binary differences (and often will end up being "whole-file" imports). Even PE files may not parse well if you don't supply the PDB files for those binaries (in both the baseline and the upgraded authoring). Those PDB files do make a difference in minimizing the patch sizes of binary files. Also, the MSP format itself has a fair bit of "overhead". I forget the minimum MSP file size I was able to generate, but I do remember it was larger than I first though it should be. -----Original Message----- From: nearnick [mailto:n...@nearglobal.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:53 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Patches way too big Hi I am creating patches from 2 installers, based on their wixpdbs. The installer I am creating is already a beastly 170+MB. When patching between the versions, even though the difference between the source directories is only a modification to a couple of dlls and an additional little text file, the patch file that gets created is about 150MB! This is with using the '-delta' flag with 'pyro.exe'. Surely I am doing something very wrong? My wix patch description file is based on the simple examples about with a 'ComponentRef' for each component in the package. Does anyone have any guesses / advice on what i am doing wrong or how i could investigate? Cheers -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Patches-way-too-big-tp3859058p3859058.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
