262604 - updating a global firefox installation under linux fails for the users

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262558

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Joachim Lechner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

I installed firefox 0.10 (package without installer) as root into /usr/local/...
. This should be available for all users. When I updated 0.10 to 0.10.1 as root
today. Only the root users firefox was updated. Would be nice if (such) updates
would be global for all users.

Best Regards, Joe

PS: Users are not available to update such an installation (no rights to write).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Version 0.10 is displayed

Expected Results:  
Version 0.10.1 should be displayed and the update should be applied :-)

Comment 1

[Thomas Kaschwig]

I can confirm this bug. The JavaScript file that sets the version number to
0.10.1 and the patched file ("nsHelperApplDlg.js") itself are only readable by
user root:

# ls -la firefox/defaults/pref/bug259708.js
-r--------  1 root root   149 2004-10-01 13:59 bug259708.js

# ls -la firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js
-r--------  1 root root 34892 2004-09-29 15:01 firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js

After changing the permissions and restarting the browser, Firefox shows the
correct version number.

# chmod 644 firefox/defaults/pref/bug259708.js
# ls -la firefox/defaults/pref/bug259708.js
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 149 2004-10-01 13:59 firefox/defaults/pref/bug259708.js

# chmod 644 firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js
# ls -la firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 34892 2004-09-29 15:01 firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js

Comment 2

[Thomas Kaschwig]

Attachment: Repacked patch for bug 259708 that works with Linux/Unix.

According to bug 189905, comment 9 and bug 189905, XPIs which are created under
Windows have wrong file permissions when unpacked on Linux/Unix. I have
repacked the XPI on Debian GNU/Linux (with Zip 2.3 (November 29th 1999)) and
installed the XPI on a fresh Firefox 0.10 installation. The file permissions
are now correct (0644 instead of 0600) and the patch does work for every user,
not only root.

Comment 3

[Thomas Kaschwig]

(In reply to comment #2)
> According to bug 189905, comment 9 and bug 189905, XPIs which are created
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry, this should be bug 209418, comment 9. Setting dependency of this bug to
bug 189905 and bug 209418.

Another problem of this patch is that normal (non-root) users are promted to
install the update, but at the end of the installation, they get an error
message, that the patch cannot be installed ("data: Downloading fix (Read
only)"). See bug 204049.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262558 ***