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binyame tiruneh
binyame tiruneh

Reputation: 103

Can a Bundle reference MSIs from local folder during installation?

I am creating a Bundle by chaining two MsiPackages. The Bundle incorporates the two MsiPackages and creates a bundled .exe as installer. Could the Bundle be set up so that it references the MSIs (not embed or contain them) from a local folder containing the two MSIs during installation? I would like to have the two MSIs referenced from local folder and installed only during installation. Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 194

Answers (2)

Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching

Reputation: 35866

Yes. By default the Bundle element has the Compressed attribute set to yes. To get your packages external by default do the following:

<Bundle Compressed='no'>

All of your packages will now be external. Now if you'd like to explicitly compress only select packages add the Compressed='yes' attribute to the desired XxxPackage elements.

Upvotes: 2

RinoTom
RinoTom

Reputation: 2326

Though I don't have a practical experience in doing this, I think you can try to use the Payload element as child element of the MsiPackage element under the Chain element to achieve this.

Payload element has the option to specify the MSI to bundle as SourceFile or DownloadUri attribute. There is an option to say whether you need to compress this MSI with your bootstrapper by the attribute Compressed which has a YesNoDefaultType value. By this you can specify your Source MSI without embedding to the package I hope.

Upvotes: 0

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