#199 Creating patch with msimsp.exe from v3.0 MSI SDK fails

[Bob Walker]

using the example in the online tutorial
(http://wix.sourceforge.net/tutorial/), if you use the
MSI 3.0 version of MsiMsp.exe that comes with Windows
XP SP2 Windows Installer SDK
(http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/)
you get an error:
"Failed to create patch. Error code: 0x30", but no
error message appears in the specified log file.
Used with the MsiMsp.exe in MSI v2.0, no error occurs
and the patch file is created ok.

The only difference in the logging output is that in
the output created by the MSI 3.0 version, 2 additional
lines are found: SEQUENCE_DATA_GENERATION_DISABLED =
'<blank>'
AllowRemoval = '<blank>'</blank></blank>

WiX Version: 2.0.2613.0
O/S: Windows XP SP2

[Rob Mensching]

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Did you have a Comment attribute on the Package element?
I've heard that a problem like this may occur when that
attribute is missing. If you can confirm that would be useful,
thanks.

[Bob Walker]

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Hi Rob, thanks for the response. Great Product BTW, I used
to hate creating installers using InstallShield, but I love
WiX.
I did have a Comment attribute on the Package element I'm
afraid, I can upload the files I'm using if you want to have
a look?

[zammer]

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Hi .. I was getting the same error using version 3.0 of MsiMsp
(haven't tried it with version 2.0). It worked fine for me after I
removed the apostrophe from "Acme's Foobar 1.0.1 Patch" in
the Description property of the <patchmetadata> tag in the
Patch.wxs file included in Sample09 on the tutorial page. Try
that - it's probably just msimsp being finicky ...</patchmetadata>

[Rob Mensching]

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This was supposedly tracked down to missing
Package/@Comment attributes.