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TeamCity building MSP files

For background: I've got quite a nice TeamCity setup; containing a ci build and a release build which uses WiX to build my installers and patch all the version numbers. When I do a new release build, I'd like to automatically create MSP patches against a previous set of installers. I'm thinking either tagged RTM in TeamCity, or as a list of version numbers.

The approach I'm leaning towards is creating a separate config and getting the msi artifacts of all the previous builds that fit the criteria (tag or version number). Tag would seem a lot neater, but I can't see anything in the documentation about how you use it?

I've got a script to build the MSP patch, but it relies on a PCP file which needs to be edited in ORCA to describe the patch.

  1. In terms of editing the PCP, is there anything else I can use other than the ORCA to edit? I've been looking at moving to the WiX method here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/patch_building.htm which looks promising.
  2. Does anyone know if you can access artifacts in TeamCity by Tag in the same or another build?
  3. Does anyone have any other insights into automatically building/chaining MSP patch files in TeamCity?
Solution

    1. You can build the .PCP file using the PatchCreation element in the WiX toolset. That will probably give you the necessary flexiblity necessary to create the customized .PCP files.

    2. Sorry, don't use TeamCity.

    3. Sorry, don't use TeamCity. :)