[wix-users] Media Id and Cabinet question for patch.wxs

[Shintaro Takechi]

@Bevan
Yes our goal is to have patch update.
We have been doing major upgrade, but now we are trying to have frequent
patch because it is smaller. (4GB+ vs 100 MB)

@Douglas
I am doing patch which is going to one disk.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:51 AM Douglas, Keith (STATCAN) <
keith.douglas at canada.ca> wrote:

> From what I remember, you only need 1 Media element unless you need to
> span more than one disk (or are doing patch, etc.)
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> *From:* Shintaro Takechi [mailto:devst119 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* August 5, 2020 12:21 PM
> *To:* Douglas, Keith (STATCAN) <keith.douglas at canada.ca>
> *Cc:* WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] Media Id and Cabinet question for patch.wxs
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> Would you please elaborate?
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> If I have 394 files and 21 folders to update are you saying media Id can
> be 416? (394 + 21 + 1)
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:05 AM Douglas, Keith (STATCAN) <
> keith.douglas at canada.ca> wrote:
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> You don't need to put every file in its own Media.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Shintaro Takechi via wix-users
> Sent: August 5, 2020 11:38 AM
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> Cc: Shintaro Takechi <devst119 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Media Id and Cabinet question for patch.wxs
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> Would anybody know how I can solve these issues?
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> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:35 PM Shintaro Takechi <devst119 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > For Media attribute for patch, I read here older thread
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> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/creating-a-WIX-small-or-minor-patch-tp7168246p7168367.html
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> >  that
> > > Id must be higher than any sequence number in the baseline
> > msi's Media/File table.
> > > Cabinet must match the original cabinet file name.
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> > My installer apparently have 33181 files, and I had 5 cabs starting from
> > cab1.cab.
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> > <Media Id="33182" Cabinet="cab1.cab">
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> > However, candle receives error
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> > > error CNDL0123 : The Media/@Id attribute's value, '33182', is not in
> the
> > range of legal values.  Legal values for this attribute are from 1 to
> 32767.
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> > How can I resolve this?
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> > And what cabinet should I point to when I have multiple cab files?
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