Regarding an alternative to admin installations: If you aren't trying to patch merge module contents, you could try using the wixpdb files instead of the admin images.
If your "original" wixpdb doesn't have access to the older binaries, you can do the following in order to force a "bound/binary" wixpdb: Each time you build an MSI you might patch later, you call light twice. The first time you specify the following two arguments: "-bf" and "-xo" and the "-o[ut]" argument (if present) should have an extension of ".wixout". The second time you call light, you pass it the .wixout as the only "objectFile" (along with all the same extensions as the first call). The resulting .wixpdb will also contain the files from the corresponding MSI. You can then move that wixpdb forward in time to any build machine and torch & pyro will be able to find the embedded files in the wixpbd. -----Original Message----- From: Sharat Janapareddy [mailto:sharat.janapare...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:53 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Jude Nwoko; Anandha Ganesan; Marc Reyhner; Murugesan Vivekananthan; Clive Eastwood Subject: [WiX-users] Duplicated primary key in _SummaryInformation table of the transform The only entry I see related to this error is the _SummaryInformation table's (from the Diff.wixmst) field '11'. Here's the corresponding row entry for that. <row op="add" sectionId="/" sourceLineNumber="d:\Enlistments\ SP1.QFE_ROLLUP\private\product\setup\wix\patch\server\obj\i386\V3USelCd\Prod uct.msi"> <field>11</field> <field>2009/11/04 09:36:30</field> </row> It looks like this field 11 is PID_LASTPRINTED property which has the timestamp when the admin image is created. Got this info from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369748(VS.85).aspx. I don't see any other row in the table with the same field number which is what the error seems to be suggesting. So, what I would like to understand is - 1. Since this WIXMST is generated by TORCH.exe, is there a way to skip generating this field. 2. Is there a way to apply a patch directly to an MSI instead of its admin image? I am currently using something like below to generate the Release --> SP1 admin image before generating a DIFF against the updated MSI: MSIEXEC -a ReleaseProduct.msi -p SP1_Patch.msp TARGETDIR=C:\Product Thanks, Sharat Janapareddy ~ 40269 -----Original Message----- From: Sharat Janapareddy [mailto:sharat.janapare...@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error generating MSP for multiple SKUs I am trying to create an SP1 rollup MSP using these steps - Apply the same SP1 patch to both the Eval and Select SKUs of Release version separately, and then generate the DIFFs by comparing the corresponding updated versions. I was able to get to the point where we have the transforms (wixmst) but I get this error while generating the MSP. The problem here is - the error does not say which WIXMST or WIXOBJ or what file is causing this. 1>errors in directory 1>d:\enlistments\sp1.qfe_rollup\private\product\setup\wix\patch\server 1>d:\enlistments\sp1.qfe_rollup\private\product\setup\wix\patch\server\pyro. exe : error PYRO0130 : The primary key '11' is duplicated in table '_SummaryInformation'. Please remove one of the entries or rename a part of the primary key to avoid the collision. 1>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'd:\enlistments\ sp1.qfe_rollup\public\ext\wix\wix3-binaries\pyro.exe' : return code '0x82' BUILD: NMAKE.EXE /nologo BUILDMSG=Stop. LINKONLY=1 NOPASS0=1 NTTEST= UMTEST= 386=1 failed - rc = 2 Any ideas on what this is talking about? I don't see any "11" in any of the WIX* files generated during this process. Thanks, Sharat Janapareddy ~ 40269 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. 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