Minor upgrade an MSI installed as a component of a Wix burn installer

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I have a product that has 8 installers. Each installer is a component of a single burn bundle. The total bundle size is 300MB

One of the installers in the bundle is a 20MB msi, which is the core of the product. The other 280MB of the bundle are dependencies of the product. I would prefer to ship updates to the product as 20MB packages (or smaller patches), rather than require that a 300MB installer is downloaded every time we ship an update.

My question is twofold:

  1. Can an msi package that was installed as part of a burn bundle be updated independently of the burn bundle?

  2. Would uninstall/repair of the burn bundle be broken if I did this?

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wixburnwix3.8

1 Answers

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Create a new bundle and give it a patch RelatedBundle entry of the upgrade code of the original bundle. Burn knows how to handle patch bundles as "children" of the original bundle.