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

[Bevan Weiss]

Mediaid 'could' have been 1, for all files in the original installer (if the total cab file size would have stayed under 4GB, or otherwise suitable for your filesystems, and I think there may be a per-cab file number limit too)

I believe the mediaid needs to increment for every patch however, to ensure source file location uniqueness.

I still think this is far too many files for a single installer. Is this really all for a single 'application'? Or is it a collection of applications that you could have used a bootstrapper and had each application self contained in it's own MSI?


Bevan


On 6 Aug. 2020, 02:20, at 02:20, Shintaro Takechi via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>Would you please elaborate?
>If I have 394 files and 21 folders to update are you saying media Id
>can be
>416? (394 + 21 + 1)
>
>On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:05 AM Douglas, Keith (STATCAN) <
>keith.douglas at canada.ca> wrote:
>
>> You don't need to put every file in its own Media.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
>Behalf
>> Of Shintaro Takechi via wix-users
>> Sent: August 5, 2020 11:38 AM
>> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
>> Cc: Shintaro Takechi <devst119 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Media Id and Cabinet question for patch.wxs
>>
>> Would anybody know how I can solve these issues?
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:35 PM Shintaro Takechi <devst119 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > For Media attribute for patch, I read here older thread
>> > <
>>
>http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/creating-a-WIX-small-or-minor-patch-tp7168246p7168367.html
>> >
>> >  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.
>> >
>> > My installer apparently have 33181 files, and I had 5 cabs starting
>from
>> > cab1.cab.
>> >
>> > <Media Id="33182" Cabinet="cab1.cab">
>> >
>> > However, candle receives error
>> >
>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > How can I resolve this?
>> >
>> > And what cabinet should I point to when I have multiple cab files?
>> >
>>
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