[wix-users] Shouldn't burn verify the bundle's digital signature? (3.10)

Jon Seanor jseanor at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 11:36:18 PDT 2017


Is the bundle source path available via IBootstrapperApplication ?
(via "PathForCurrentProcess" or "WixOriginalSource")
Seen them mentioned here which has got my hopes up:
http://lists.project-wombat.org/pipermail/wix-devs-wixtoolset.org/2016-January/000204.html


On 26 April 2017 at 16:57, Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> Handle OnCacheVerifyComplete and you can provide whatever UI you want,
> very early in the apply phase.
>
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Shouldn't burn verify the bundle's digital
> signature? (3.10)
>
> It's unfortunate that it doesn't check before cache verification.
> The resulting end-user facing message (a common dlg asking for a file)
> results in support calls.
> It *should* be simple for the engine to perform a signature check
> (assuming it was not itself damaged).
> I was hoping I could write a ba to do this, but looking at
> balExtension\wixstdba it doesn't look like it has access to the source
> bundle path.
>
> Thanks
> Jon
>
>
> On 26 April 2017 at 15:14, Nir Bar <nir.bar at panel-sw.com> wrote:
>
> > The bootstrapper is made of the burn engine plus embedded containers
> > that hold the files.Once launched, burn extracts the engine to a
> > temporary folder and then launches it.
> > When the user starts applying, the engine extracts the containers to
> > cache folder and installs the packages.
> >
> >
> > Assuming that the file was corrupted anywhere other than the engine
> > itself, burn will find it on cache verification phase only
> >
> > Nir Bar
> > Panel::Software Architecture and Development
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