Patch file names
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:35 pm
Hello,
I am looking for some guidance with regard to the naming of patch exe files.
I notice on page 7 of the Installaware whitepaper named 'installaware_web_updates.pdf' (show below), that each of the patches has a different name. Giving each patch a different name would be very useful as it would permit me to place all of the patches in the same download directory on my web server. However it seem that there is not a provision in the IA 'Patches' UI that will permit me to give a unique name to each patch. IA always creates and names a patch based on the project name. Thus the name is always the same for both the full installation and also for each and every patch. Obviously this can be dangerous if one is not very careful when deploying different files that use the same name!
The screen capture taken from IA white paper shows patches that each have a different name, but short of manually renaming each patch after IA has created it, there does not seem to be a way to do this.
Am I missing something simple that permits generating a patch with a unique name or is this just a great idea
of mine that InstallAware will now want to immediately rush off an implement tonight? 
Thanks
-Steve
I am looking for some guidance with regard to the naming of patch exe files.
I notice on page 7 of the Installaware whitepaper named 'installaware_web_updates.pdf' (show below), that each of the patches has a different name. Giving each patch a different name would be very useful as it would permit me to place all of the patches in the same download directory on my web server. However it seem that there is not a provision in the IA 'Patches' UI that will permit me to give a unique name to each patch. IA always creates and names a patch based on the project name. Thus the name is always the same for both the full installation and also for each and every patch. Obviously this can be dangerous if one is not very careful when deploying different files that use the same name!
The screen capture taken from IA white paper shows patches that each have a different name, but short of manually renaming each patch after IA has created it, there does not seem to be a way to do this.
Am I missing something simple that permits generating a patch with a unique name or is this just a great idea
of mine that InstallAware will now want to immediately rush off an implement tonight? Thanks
-Steve
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