Patches and Merge Modules

maharper1 · Post by **maharper1** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:35 am

This is my first attempt at a Patch build, so I may have done something wrong, but the size of the patch and watching what happened during the build process, lead me to believe that a merge module that did not change between versions was included in the patch anyway.

Is that the expected behavior? And if so, is there some way that I can tell the patch to NOT include the merge module?

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:45 am

Are you hypothesizing that the MSM was included, or do you actually have proof that the MSM was included?

maharper1 · Post by **maharper1** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:28 pm

How would I prove it? Is there a way for me to tell what is in the patch?

I have only circumstantial evidence right now. The original install was 38 MB of which approximately 25 MB is the Crystal Reports merge module. I modified only the program executable which is approximately 2 MB. The patch is 27 MB. I watched the patch run, it ran very quickly, and I didn't see any Crystal files being installed, but the size seems out of line.

What is the normal overhead in a patch for the InstallAware pieces?