Unpack WIX Burn bundle

Question

Is it possible to somehow unpack a bundle? I need to make sure all packages within a bundle are signed correctly...

TIA

Nanette

Answer 1

Dark.exe decompiles bundles; use -x to extract the bits.

Jemma

thanks for the tip. the tool works, and it extracts everything... except the bundle engine. my primary goal was checking if the engine is signed correctly. i managed to do that by executing the bundle and locating cached engine in c:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{GUID}\... (in Win7) btw, engine executable is named the same way the bundle is. i found useful info there too - #5628862 – Nanette

Answer 2

Run the installer with the argument -layout and it should download or extract (as appropriate) the packages that it contains to the directory the installer is in. You can specify a target directory as a second argument if you wish.

This was tested with a bundle created with version 3.6.2520.0. It is known to be broken on the current weekly release of wix36.exe itself.

Lingwood

thanks. looks like it extracts everything except the engine though. – Nanette

this doesnt work for me, all it does is to copy the bundle.exe itself. My bundle.exe should and does contain another .exe and an .msi. That's what I want to get out (using wix 3.9 to build it) – Displease

Answer 3

insignia will extract the engine.

insignia -ib Install.exe  -o engine.exe

Then I use signtool to sign the engine then you have to put the engine back into the bundle...

insignia -ab engine.exe Install.exe -o Install.exe

I then sign the whole bundle

Jacklyn