Adding Transforms To An Msi Package; Resolve Conflicts Page - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Adding Transforms to an MSI Package

When you prepare a package for distribution, you need to package the transforms with the base
You can perform this task using InstallShield Editor or Tuner. See
InstallShield
You can also specify a transform at the command line:
msiexec /i "yourmsi.msi" TRANSFORMS="yourtrans.mst"

Resolve Conflicts Page

Edition • ConflictSolver is included with AdminStudio Professional and Enterprise Editions.
Although a Windows Installer package or merge module may be built to guidelines put forth by Microsoft, it is
possible that the interaction between packages, or between a package and the base operating system, may cause
unwanted results in your production environment. You perform conflict detection to identify these conflicts before
you deploy packages, and resolve the problems before they affect your end users.
On the Resolve Conflicts page, you select the Windows Installer package you want to check for conflicts against
packages already in the Application Catalog.
Task: To select a package for conflict detection:
1. Click on the Resolve Conflicts icon in the navigation bar. The Resolve Conflicts Page opens.
2. Click Browse to locate and select the package.
3. Should that package require transforms, click the New button (
dialog box and select a transform file.
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If the package requires multiple transforms, you can repeat the procedure as necessary.
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The order in which transforms are applied can be changed by selecting a transform and clicking the
Move Up (
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Delete a transform file from the Transforms list by selecting the transform and clicking the Delete button
(
4. From the ConflictSolver Operation list, select Detect conflicts for this package or Resolve conflicts for
this package.
5. Click Perform to launch conflict detection for this package.
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