432673 - additional xpi dont install at all

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: CCK, defect)

Description

[Diego Mathis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080325 Fedora/2.0.0.13-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: CCK Wizard 1.1;;;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 (CK-test01) Firefox/2.0.0.14

I tried to make a package with fireftp and password exporter.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Mozilla Firefox
2. install CCK
3. try to make any package with a xpi
Actual Results:  
All settings do work, as it seems; except the additional plugins are not available.

Expected Results:  
The additional XPI should be installed, as if I install them manually.

I have used the zip.exe from http://www.info-zip.org/. 
It seems everything works fine, only the XPI's are not taken over..

I checked the xpi file, and the included xpi are there, also the config file contains the infos.. Sofar the xpi should work...

Comment 1

[Malte Starostik]

I can confirm this.  I'm not using an external zip tool, however that shouldn't be required with FF 3.5, right?
I generated an XPI with CCK and some additional extensions.  I can successfully install the bundle with the Add-On manager, however -install-global-extension will not work.  The install.rdf and individual XPIs are extracted to %ProgramFiles%\Mizilla Firefox\extensions\[e-mail] and that's it.  Neither the CCK package nor my additional extensions are installed :-(

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Did you try dragging and dropping the XPI to the browser to see if that works? I'm wondering if -install-global-extension doesn't support multiple XPIs?

I think I'm going to update the CCK so that it doesn't use this mechanism for packaging multiple XPIs, but bundles them directly.

Comment 3

[Malte Starostik]

Yes, drag and drop works.

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

So it definitely appears install-global-extension doesn't work with XPI bundles.

I have an entirely different idea on how to handle this that I'll try to get implemented.

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

I've reworked how XPIs are installed for the new version.

This concept should work better.

However, install-global-extension was removed, so this won't work anyway:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Command_Line_Options#Add-ons