[Mapguide-trac] [mapguide-trac] #2341: Avoid using auto-generated offsets for referenced executables in installer
MapGuide Open Source
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Fri Aug 16 00:58:39 PDT 2013
#2341: Avoid using auto-generated offsets for referenced executables in installer
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Reporter: jng | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 2.6
Component: Installer | Version:
Severity: major | Keywords:
External_id: |
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Every release cycle, we inevitably start off producing a broken installer
because the expected file offsets of certain key executables and dlls
needed for custom actions have been shifted from the last time we built
the installer.
The problem is simply the paraffin tool used to generate the file listings
does not have a way to assign specific identifiers to specific files.
Adding support in the paraffin tool to do this allows us to tag the
following files with special identifiers:
* httpd.exe
* mgserver.exe
* isapi_MapAgent.dll
* tomcat7.exe
Then from the wix installer, instead of referencing these files by their
auto-generated offset which could change with each release, we can
reference them by the identifiers we specified.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/2341>
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