[wix-users] Having version number in filenames when apply a patch

[Farrukh Waheed]

I never tried to play with it, but I thought, patches use Component GUID to
recognize the files.

On 10 November 2016 at 02:10, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
wrote:

> Unlike others including Phil Wilson, I don't have any expertise on this
> subject, but the question has come up in the archives before.  IIRC, the
> suggestion was to install the new file and configure the app to use it.
> For the patch leave the old file as it is, based on the principal that a
> patch should never try to remove a 'leaf' in the file tree, but you can add
> a 'leaf' to a patch.  Then when the user at a later point does a
> MajorUpgrade the old file will be cleaned up.
>
> Phill in this case, (not Phil the expert, thanks for all your help over
> the years!)
>
> ________________________________
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of
> Christin Meienberg | HBT <Christin.Meienberg at hbt.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 11:58:03 AM
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Having version number in filenames when apply a
> patch
>
> Hi Phil
>
> Thank you for your answer. I'm new in this topic so probably I need to
> change my perspective.
>
> Is there any other possibility to install just some jar files of the
> software and not the whole application again? As I understood MajorUpdate
> means uninstall all files and install all files with a new version.
>
> The background ist that people using laptops with  bad network connection
> but need to update the system. So we like to have our update packages as
> small as possible.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christin
>
> > Am 09.11.2016 um 18:05 schrieb Phil Wilson <phil.wilson at mvps.org>:
> >
> > Almost by definition, a patch is an update to installed files, maybe
> even a
> > binary delta that updates part of already installed files. What you
> > effectively want to do is uninstall some files and replace them with
> others.
> > That's not a patch, that's more like a major upgrade with new Ids for the
> > new files (so the old ones are uninstalled).
> > Phil W
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> Behalf Of
> > Christin Meienberg | HBT
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 9:50 AM
> > To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> > Subject: [wix-users] Having version number in filenames when apply a
> patch
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm using Wix to create an installer for our client software. In generell
> > it's working really good including major updates.
> >
> > However I've issues with patches. We are working with version numbers in
> the
> > jar filenames we install. For example: Test-1.2.3.jar. And the patch file
> > should be Test-1.2.4.jar. But if I understand the documentation correct
> the
> > names of the files needs to be identical when using patches. So my
> question
> > is, is there any possibility to patch files even they have different
> > versions in the name? The rest of the file name is equal.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Christin
> >
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