I do have a few custom action so that may well account for it - I am using a custom BA so I will try tweaking that.
Neil >I have looked at WixStdBA, and I do believe is not accounting for CA >progress updates would cause overlap in the overall progress. I >specifically remember seeing comments in wiutil.cpp: > > // HACK!!! this is a hack courtesy of the Windows Installer >team. It seems the script planning phase > // is always off by "about 50". So we'll toss an extra 50 >ticks on so that the standard progress > // doesn't go over 100%. If there are any custom actions, >they may blow the total so we'll call this > // "close" and deal with the rest. > >The more packages you install and the more custom actions you run would >probably extend the variance. > >In the end, if you have multiple MSI payloads you could try reducing one >of them at a time to see which is the most offending, and from there look >to see how many custom actions are being run. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] >Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 5:12 PM >To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ExePackage Progress > >Thanks for that I think you might be right, when I upgrade I typically on >install 2 large MSIs and as you say they do appear to overrun. I'll have >a look at the code too and see if I can spot the issue. > >Neil > > >>I can't help you with it, but I (1) can confirm the behaviour and (2) >>add that it has nothing to do with ExePackages specifically or a mix of >>types. I have a bundle of all MSIPackages and it does exactly the same >>thing there. In fact, as the number of packages in the bundle >>increases, the larger the apparent error in the progress calculation >>is. I believe it is just a bug in the StdBa. I've been meaning to go >>and hunt it down but haven't had the time. >> >>Cheers. >> >>On 12-11-14 03:03 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: >>> Is anyone able to help with this? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] >>> Sent: 07 November 2012 22:20 >>> To: General toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) >>> Subject: [WiX-users] ExePackage Progress >>> >>> Can anyone tell me how the burn progress bar works for ExePackages? I >>>have a bundle with several Exe packages (one of which is SQL Express) >>>and a couple of MSI packages and the progress bar gets to 100% way >>>before the install has completed. On an upgrade where only the MSIs >>>are being installed it seems to be ok so my guess is that I have to >>>manually set the InstallSIze for the ExePackages but I am not sure to >>>what. Is it the size of the install or the size of the files that are >>>installed or something else? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Neil >>> Neil Sleightholm >>> X2 Systems Limited >>> >>> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>--- >>>----- >>> Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single >>>web console. 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