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["Rivera, Rafael" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 I think every time someone downloads voidtools' Everything, Garrett
gets a kick back of some kind. The log file lives in %windir%\logs\cbs\
if you'd rather go that route ;)

/rafael

On 9/12/2010 5:11 PM, Garrett Serack wrote:
> Hey Eric,
>
> I saw your tweet--what kind of problems were you having?
>
> I can give you a few hints:
>
> use
>    *msiexec /lvx* logfile.txt /i [installer].msi *and you will
> generate a huge-log file.
>
> install voidtools.com "*everything*" for searching your whole hard
> disk. This will help you find a file called *cbs.log* ... I dunno
> where it is, I found it with everything. it's a really deep log file
> for *c*omponent *b*ased *s*ervicing. (wipe it out before a new install)
>
> between cbs.log and the logfile.txt files, it'll tell you everything
> that's going wrong... not that what it tells you
> is necessarily clear... but it's all there.
>
> My issue on Friday turned out to be the order in which I signed
> things... I was signing the EXEs after I had created a manifest &
> hashes & cdf files ... which changed the hash. (do'h!)
>
> My testpackagemaker source code should be readable enough to pick out
> the order in which I've done that.
>
> OH!!!
>
> And, if you uninistall a WinSxS package, and then recreate a new
> package with slightly different contents and don't change the version,
> it'll fail because the version you're trying to install differs from
> the one already installed (and the Master Control Program's
> recognizers haven't de-rezzed the previously installed
> one....hmmm..maybe that was just Tron. ) When WinSxS uninstalls
> something, the files aren't immediately removed--they're queued up for
> cleanup later (when your PC isn't busy) If you attempt to reinstall
> the same version, it checks if it's the same as the one you've just
> uninstalled. 
>
> I asked the WinSxS maintainer (Eugene) about the possibility of
> forcing a cleanup; he said he didn't know of any way to force the
> cleanup to happen. I found that if I found the folder in
> c:\windows\WinSXS and made sure that nothing was locked, I could force
> the permissions on the specific folder and delete it. I highly
> don't recommend this tho... I'm not sure that it's a smart idea.
>
> G
>
>
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