246702 - nightly 20040609 xpi still gives version as 2004040813

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[gekacheka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 20040609-cal

Help | about gives version 2004040813, should be updated in nightly 20040609 so
users can give bug reports with the proper version number.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install nightly 2004-06-09
2. restart
3. help | about

Actual Results:  
Shows version 2004040813

Expected Results:  
something near 20040609

Number is text in content/about.html.

Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

In CVS it is 2004-04-08 but it should be correct in the xpi.
I'll build today and change cvs to 2004-06-15 anyway.

Comment 2

[Mostafa Hosseini]

New 2004-06-15 xpis built.
about.html updated in cvs.

Comment 3

[gekacheka]

Further investigation: installing the calendar_windows_20040609.xpi does produce
a reasonable version number (2004060911).

But on the download page, the windows 'nightly' link (labeled in html as
2004-06-09) points to calendar_windows_nightly.xpi, and installing this produces
the old version 2004040813 as well as old code, so it may be the windows
nightly.xpi got reverted somehow.  

Looking at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/xpi/windows/ in
mozilla lists the nightly.xpi as a directory, earlier it listed it as a file
with the same date and size and the 20040609.xpi.

Comment 4

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Is it possible that the link was cached?
Today I pointed calendar_windows_nightly to 20040615.
The ftp site should be updated soon and it properly reloaded should give the
20040615 build

Comment 5

[gekacheka]

Looking at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/xpi/windows/

The nightly.xpi 'folder' was dated 2004-06-14 14:40, so it looked like it got
overwritten yesterday.    

It is dated 2004-06-15 9:55 today after your fix.
Retrying produced the old version again, probably from cache.  Cleared the cache
(preferences | advanced) and retried, this time got the 20040615 version.

...Now it is dated 2004-06-15 14:00 (but it is less than an hour later -- times
must be different timezones?).  

...Now it is dated 2004-06-15 14:45.  Cleared cache again, and retried, this
time I got the 20040609 version.  

...Now it says 2004-06-15 10:00.  Cleared cache again, retried, now I get the
20040615 version.

Each time the file listing also listed a 20040615 version just before the
nightly version.

Maybe there's a mirroring/replicating service that doesn't expect old files to
be updated? (or somehow fails with links or whatever is producing the 'folder'
icon?)

One solution might be to have the download page "nightly" links point to the
latest *dated* xpi, so the URL will change every time.  The html text currently
includes a date that needs to be udpated, so changing the url is not much more.  

Comment 6

[Mostafa Hosseini]

"_nightly" changed to actual date.
Also added <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0"> as per sipaq's suggestion to
make the page reload each time and not be cached.

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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