[wix-users] Program loses signature when bundled

[Hoover, Jacob]

Sorry, lots of distractions yesterday and I misread this a bit.  Compressing the files into a CAB are good, but I would advise using external CAB's as Windows installer caches the MSI for uninstall purposes.  Have a look at MediaTemplate and its EmbedCab attribute.
 

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Patterson, Brent
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 5:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Program loses signature when bundled

Before the change to "yes" for compressed, it didn't make external cabs, but simply copies the files over in the same directory structure, fully visible to the users.  After changing to "yes", .cab files are generated.  I assume those are the external cabs that you're talking about.

I was verifying every step up to the boostrapper build had the exe signed, but when bootstrapper is built, it loses the signature.  Not sure what's happening.  But the .cab is a satisifactory solution, and actually seems to make the install process faster.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Hoover, Jacob
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 4:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Program loses signature when bundled

Shouldn't have to compress.  I build my MSI's with external CAB's and I don't have any issues.  Are you using smart cab caching? 
Ex: 
<LinkerAdditionalOptions>-reusecab -cc "$(SomeMsbuildProperty\Cache\$(AnotherPropertyname)\"</LinkerAdditionalOptions>

Also, ensure you've done a clean before building the MSI, as you may be using 'stale' artifacts from a previous build.

Does your build process for your application sign the output before you invoke the build for the MSI?

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Patterson, Brent
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 4:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Program loses signature when bundled

Apparently I need to compress the MSI files (change the MSI's Product.wxs from "compressed='no'" to 'yes"), then it's fine.  Guess I'll use that MSI approach then.  Thanks, your comment helped me start on the right path for investigating this!

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Hoover, Jacob
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 1:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Program loses signature when bundled

Ensure your source location for your MSI is the signed exe.  Bundling a MSI will not modify a MSI package, nor any of its CABS. If you are using external CAB's, you can verify the contents easily by opening the CAB file and extracting the exe.  If it's an embedded CAB, then you will need a tool like Orca to extract the embedded contents.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Patterson, Brent
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 12:57 PM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-users] Program loses signature when bundled

Thanks again for your help in the past, I really appreciate it.  I figured out the issue with patching bundle and MSPs.  The reason why it wasn't working correctly in past was due to me taking a shortcut in making MSPs.  Instead of updating files' version, I simply built them once, then twiddled with the MSI bundle to remove files as part of patching process.  This resulted in MSP thinking it's already installed, since all files are still at the same version, skipping some MSPs in the bundle.  But once I did a full rebuild for each patch, the MSPs worked correctly, both small and minor updates.

Now I'm facing an interesting problem.  I have a signing process that signs our program's exe (not the installer exe, but the program itself).  When MSI is built, it is still signed.  But once it's bundled as part of the bootstrapper bundle, it loses the signature and reverts back to unsigned exe.  Why is this?  Do I need to extract files (this is compressed into the exe) and sign it again and put it back in?  What am I missing here?

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