[wix-users] Consolidated Upgrade Version

[Tyler Gustafson]

I should maybe clarify a bit.
If your "patches" are delivered as major upgrades in .msi files then you can ignore the rest of this response.

If you are actually creating .msp patches you'll be using torch.exe to create transform file(s) from previous installer(s) to the latest installer. You are then putting the transform file(s) into pyro.exe to create a patch. If you want that patch to be able to upgrade from any of the previous versions instead of just one, run torch.exe multiple times to create transforms from 15.0.0, 15.0.1, and 15.0.2 to 15.0.3, then you can use multiple -t arguments to the call to pyro.exe to give it the 3 transforms.

If instead you only do one transform 15.0.0 -> 15.0.3 and put that alone into pyro, your patch will only be able to go from 15.0.0->15.0.3 and you won't be able to use it to handle a scenario such as 15.0.1->15.0.3

Clear as mud right?
Tyler

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Harinatha Narisetty
Sent: February-06-17 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Consolidated Upgrade Version

Our current implementation is exactly the way you explained... works without any problems. We don't have to install all patches to upgrade from 15.0 to 15.3 unless each setup is writing/updating database or some store that you need later.

Thanks
Hari

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Gustafson
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Consolidated Upgrade Version

That's how patches work out of the box. You shouldn't have to install 15.0.1 or 15.0.2 if you want to go from 15.0.0 to 15.0.3 you should be able to just install 15.0.3. Have you tested this to see if it works? If not, what sort of error message or failure indication are you seeing?

Tyler

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesan, Ravikumar
Sent: February-06-17 9:36 AM
To: 'wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org' <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] Consolidated Upgrade Version

Hi All,

                We have a product which is in "15.0" version.  I've a WiX Installer project for releasing my patches. We've successfully released the minor versions of the product using this WiX project as a MSI file, viz. "15.0.1", "15.0.2" & "15.0.3". All is well, so far. Also, the latest version of the patch is "15.0.3", which will be most likely the last version.

                Now, if a customer wants to have the latest 15.0.3, we've to upgrade them to 15.0.1 & then to 15.0.2 & then to 15.0.3. This is done by running each version of the installers, in this case 3 installers.

My question is, Is there a way to consolidate the patches so that I end up installing only the consolidated patch instead of 3 patch installers? I would also like to know if there is a consolidation concept in the WiX installer world.

I hope, I've tried my best to describe my requirement. Please let me know, if you want any clarification on the same.

Regards,
Ravi

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