Software Deployment

Howdy,


I have previously released 2 versions of an application (lets call them Version A and Version B) and are about to release a third version (Version C). I would like to release a patch that will patch version A to C or version B to C but cannot find any documentation to cover it.

I can quite easily create a patch to update A to B, a second patch B to C, and a third patch A to C but I would like to combine the three
patches into one. I can imagine my number of patches skyrocketing during future version releases.

I know it is possible because I have used a demo version of MSIStudio to create the PCP and the MSP automatically. The MSP works great (A to B, or B to C) but I really want to create my own MSP from the PCP (even from the one MSIStudio creates would be fine). I can see that the PCP has two TargetImages (A.msi and B.msi) and that the UpgradedImages table has the third image (C.msi) but then I run msimsp.exe:


msimsp -s Patch.pcp -p Patch.msp -l log.txt -d


, I get the following error (and the MSP is not created):


ERROR: This patch contains multiple transform sets and is a mixture of QFE, minor, and/or major patches.


Surely if I have the correct PCP (that MSIStudio created) and I have the same .msi files that MSIStudio used... I should be able to create the same MSP using msimsp? What is MSIStudio doing that I am not? I know it must be using msimsp because the first time I ran it the program produced an error and asked me to manually copy the msimsp executable into the applicaiton folder.


To reiterate... what is MSIStudio doing that I am not?


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Does anyone have an example I can follow or has anyone even accomplished this? I want to produce a single patch file (.msp) that will update all previously released versions to the current release. All versions will be minor changes/patches.

thanks,
/evan