20043 - addFile() returns bogus -1 when installing older version

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22341

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Both addFile() and addDirectory() return version compare values -4, .. -1 when
the script tries to install a file with an older version than an existing file
and the force flag is not set.

It is correct that the older file is not installed, but it should not be
reported as an error to the script.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

You can now attempt to install an older component and it will correctly be
skipped rather than return a bogus error.

Comment 2

[leger]

Bulk move of XPInstall (component to be deleted) bugs to Installer: XPInstall
Engine

Comment 3

[Jimmy Lee]

Reassigning QA Contact to David.

Comment 4

[David Epstein]

not fixed. retested on build 2000011008-M13 (linux, nt and mac). returns -208
(invalid parameter) in logfile:
** ERROR (-208): Skipping: (null)

Install script aborted.
steps:
1) from http://jimbob/trigger2.html, select f_addsubcomp from dropdown. press
trigger case. This installs version 1.0.1.1 in reg package f_addsubcomp.
2) then select f_addsubcomp_vi_no_update from dropdown. Script has older version
(1.0.0.0) w/ force flag = false.
Note: In 4 separate tests, I tested lower major, minor, version and build
components of the version string, and in each case, it returns -208. (in each
case, the .xpi included an earlier test file and it correctly did not install
it).

Also, I tested compareVersion forms of InstallTrigger object and they were
returning expected values for each case.

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22341 ***

Comment 6

[David Epstein]

dup. 22341 has been fixed.