[wix-users] Controlling the destination of the temp files

Sean Hall r.sean.hall at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 18:24:44 PDT 2015


It sounds like you have this Payload element inside of the
BootstrapperApplicationRef element.  You need to put it inside of the
ExePackage element for that package.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Roni Fuchs <ronif at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> When we use:
>
>       <Payload Name="redist\NDP46-KB3045557-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe"
>
>                SourceFile="Prerequisites\.Net Framework
> 4.6\NDP46-KB3045557-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe"/>
>
>
>
> The redist folder will be generated under:
>
> %temp%\{guid}\ba1\redist\...
>
>
>
> But when the bootstrapper tries to look for the source of package:
> NetFx46Redist, It will look where our container (.exe) is... and not in the
> temp dir.
>
>
>
> Is there a way to tell it to look for the package in the ba1 folder?
>
> Is there a way to tell the payload to extract to the
> WixBundleLastUsedSource where it currently looks for the file?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roni (Aron) Fuchs
>
>
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