[wix-users] Downloading large payloads to drive with most free space

[Sean Hall]

The Burn engine should be using the user's temp directory, not the system
temp directory.  I don't expect this behavior to change or be configurable,
if the user needs the temp directory on a larger drive then they can do
that.

Starting in v3.9, the Package Cache location can be configured at the
system level -
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2015/06/09/redirect-the-package-cache-using-registry-based-policy/.
Burn moves the packages into the package cache during execution even if
they won't be kept cached for security reasons, so this behavior isn't
going to change either.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:51 AM, <john.pnvn at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> our bundle contains large payloads (cabs), which are downloaded to system
> temporary directory. However, for some of our customers this is an issue
> (they don't have enough free space on their system drives - you know small/
> cheap SSDs and such...).
>
> Is it possible to change this?
>
> We're already using custom private build with some adjustments, so it is
> not
> an issue to modify Burn engine. So far our changes were very small and
> localized and we were hoping that this would already be implemented (for
> example Windows Update does extract its packages to the partition with most
> free space available).
>
> Also, we're not caching our packages, but Burn still moves them to Package
> Cache (which is again located on system drive). Is it possible to change
> this behavior as well?
>
> John
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
> WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant
> http://www.firegiant.com/
>