Re: [HTCondor-users] Failed to build 8.0.0 using WiX with win7, MSVS2010, WiX 3.7

[Ziliang Guo <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stupid tab to click...........

Anyway, one suggestion. If you're going to be building your own MSIs,
I would suggest grabbing the zip of the Windows version of HTCondor
instead of using the MSI, installing it, and trying to generate the
MSI from the installed binaries. Also, it's suggested that you copy
out the wix files into a separate directory and run the do_wix script
from there instead of doing it inside of the unzipped folder.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ziliang Guo <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've just built a new installer with WiX 3.7 and the resulting
> installation went fine, so at this point not exactly sure what problem
> you ran into.
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Ziliang Guo <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I suppose the question was not specific enough. What is it that you
>> are trying to achieve that the vanilla MSI does not do that would
>> require you to go to the trouble of creating a custom MSI.
>>
>> And the answer is no, there are no known problems, though I do not
>> believe we use a version of WiX as recent as what you did. I'm not set
>> up to try to replicate your situation right now, though I'll give it a
>> shot Friday once I'm back in the office.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Kevin Buckley
>> <kevin.buckley.ecs.vuw.ac.nz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 28 August 2013 12:21, Ziliang Guo <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A question, why do you need a customized installer in the first place?
>>>
>>> I addressed this in an earlier email but basicaly, I want to be able to
>>> give our central IT facilitator a single thing to deploy across the
>>> machines that comprise the Condor grid here, so just one job, rather
>>> than have to ask them to first install the vanilla MSI and then have ask
>>> for any customisations in a second job.
>>>
>>> Having said that, let me turn your question around:
>>>
>>> are there known problems with creating customised installers with
>>> recent Condor versions that weren't there in the 7.6.3 version,
>>> which is what I used previously and so expected to be able to
>>> replicate this time, or did I just "get lucky" last time ?
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