Please bear with me if I am missing anything obvious since I recently started
experimenting WIX 3.0 for building patches.
I understand that we can generate patches using either PCP file or WIX
directly. I decided to go with the latter approach but I am running into some
issues with it. The main one being how do we build an MSP that targets multiple
SKUs of the same product? I followed 2 methods for this and both of them fail
on me!
* I thought TargetProductCodes in the Patch element serves this
purpose. So, I built an MSP with the product codes for all SKUs in the
TargetProductCodes element and generated the MSP by using the Select version.
The MSP built without any issues but when I tried to verify if the patch
applies through Orca, it only applies for SELECT but not for any other SKUs.
First of all, is this the right purpose of the TargetProductCodes and is this
the right way to do it? Here's how I specified the product codes -
<TargetProductCodes Replace="yes">
<!-- SELECT -->
<TargetProductCode Id="{FFXXXXXX-...}" />
<!-- DEM -->
<TargetProductCode Id="{35XXXXXX-...}" />
<!-- EVAL -->
<TargetProductCode Id="{BEXXXXXX-...}" />
</TargetProductCodes>
* Another way I tried was I expanded the released and updated versions
for all SKUs of the MSI, then generated a diff for each one of them. Once I had
these diffs, I called PYRO.exe (as shown below) to generate the MSP. Here's an
excerpt from the script.
$(O)\$(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wixobj: $(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wxs
echo BUILDMSG2: Compiling - $@
$(WIX3_BIN)\candle.exe -nologo -out $@
$(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wxs
$(O)\$(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wixmsp: $(O)\$(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wixobj
$(LOC_FILE_DIR)\$(MSIPATCHCULTURE).wxl
echo BUILDMSG2: Linking - $@
$(WIX3_BIN)\light.exe -nologo -cultures:$(MSIPATCHCULTURE) -loc
$(LOC_FILE_DIR)\$(MSIPATCHCULTURE).wxl -out $@
$(O)\$(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wixobj
echo BUILDMSG2: Expanding SELECT...
$(O)\SelCD\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI):
$(RTM_BIN_PATH)\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(BUILDCPUDIR)\SelectCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
echo BUILDMSG2: Generating admin RTM image - $@
msiexec -quiet -a
$(RTM_BIN_PATH)\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(BUILDCPUDIR)\SelectCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
TARGETDIR=$(MAKEDIR)\$(O)\SelCD
$(O)\USelCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI):
$(INETROOT)\target\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(CPUTYPE)\SelectCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
echo BUILDMSG2: Generating admin QFE image - $@
msiexec -quiet -a
$(INETROOT)\target\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(CPUTYPE)\SelectCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
TARGETDIR=$(MAKEDIR)\$(O)\USelCd
$(O)\SelectDiff.wixmst: $(O)\SelCD\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
$(O)\USelCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
echo BUILDMSG2: Generating diff - $@
$(WIX3_BIN)\torch.exe -nologo -p -xo -ax $(O)\SelectDiffBin
$(O)\SelCD\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI) $(O)\USelCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI) -out $@
echo BUILDMSG2: Expanding DEM...
$(O)\DemCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI):
$(RTM_BIN_PATH)\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(BUILDCPUDIR)\DEMCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
echo BUILDMSG2: Generating admin RTM image - $@
msiexec -quiet -a
$(RTM_BIN_PATH)\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(BUILDCPUDIR)\DEMCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
TARGETDIR=$(MAKEDIR)\$(O)\DemCd
$(O)\UDemCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI):
$(INETROOT)\target\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(CPUTYPE)\DEMCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
echo BUILDMSG2: Generating admin QFE image - $@
msiexec -quiet -a
$(INETROOT)\target\$(BUILDTYPE)\$(CPUTYPE)\DEMCDImage\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI_RELATIVE_DIRECTORY)\$(CPUTYPE)\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
TARGETDIR=$(MAKEDIR)\$(O)\UDemCd
$(O)\DEMDiff.wixmst: $(O)\DemCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
$(O)\UDemCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI)
echo BUILDMSG2: Generating diff - $@
$(WIX3_BIN)\torch.exe -nologo -p -xo -ax $(O)\DEMDiffBin
$(O)\DemCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI) $(O)\UDemCd\$(PATCH_TARGET_MSI) -out $@
$(O)\$(TARGETNAME).msp: $(O)\$(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wixmsp
$(O)\SelectDiff.wixmst $(O)\DEMDiff.wixmst
echo BUILDMSG2: Building patch - $@
$(WIX3_BIN)\pyro.exe -nologo
$(O)\$(PATCH_DEFINITION_FILE).wixmsp -out $@ -t RTM $(O)\SelectDiff.wixmst -t
RTM $(O)\DEMDiff.wixmst
$(BINPLACE_CMD)
But when I run this script, I get the below error for almost
all files in the MSI. Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?
1>d:\product\setup\wix\patch\server\obj\i386\urtlcd\Product.msi : error
PYRO0317 : Two different source paths 'd:\
product\setup\wix\patch\server\obj\i386\USelCd\program files\Prod2007\ABC.exe'
and 'd:\ product\setup\wix\patch\server\obj\i386\URtlCd\program
files\Prod2007\ABC.exe' were detected for the same file identifier
'F_ABC.exe.XXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXX. You must either author these
under Media elements with different Id attribute values or in different patches.
* The final one I tried which I had a little success is - I defined
each SKU target in a separate MEDIA element as the above error suggested. (It
certainly doesn't make sense do generate a separate MSP for each SKU!)
<Media Id="1" Cabinet="SelPatch.cab">
<PatchBaseline Id="RTMSelect"/>
</Media>
<Media Id="2" Cabinet="DemPatch.cab">
<PatchBaseline Id="RTMDem"/>
</Media>
This did generate the MSP but the size of the MSP is about 3 times more than
the one generated for all our 6 SKUs using a PCP file (which is what we were
doing before using WIX). And I was able to apply this patch for both the Select
and DEM SKUs.
So, what is the right approach here?
Thanks,
Sharat Janapareddy
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