I cannot get the patch to apply properly. I have tried adding new files during the troubleshooting process and that works fine. When viewing the target msi file in Orca, I can apply the patch and only adds appear in the patch table, file table, etc... but changes do not appear to be taking. When viewing the target, locally cached msi file after applying the patch, no changes appear to be made at all to it (There is no patch table or additions to the AdminExec table). During the patch creation process, the msimsp.exe log file indicates that it has found file differences for the two files I meantioned. Using mspview reveals that the transform in the msp file has the correct key values for the files in the file table (These do not appear to be component key values though).
Unfortunately, I only seem to be able to learn from example so does anyone have a sample that they know works that I could work from? I really need a target image msi, upgrade image msi, the pcp file, and msp file that work. Perhaps I am applying the patch incorrectly? I've heard things about not being able to add components to features or change them? Since I don't know what 'feature' means maybe I'm missing a fundamental concept. Even a simple deployment package with one file in it would be a great start. Thank you for any help you can offer!