284497 - install of firefox 1.0.1 over top of 1.0 (when install dir is the firefox-installer dir itself) doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 243665

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[fish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

install of firefox 1.0.1 over top of 1.0 (when install dir is the
firefox-installer dir itself) doesn't work

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install firefox-1.0 in default firefox-installer directory
2. try to install firefox-1.0.1 over top of that one (which installer.bin says
you can do)
3.

Actual Results:  
installation gets all messed up

Expected Results:  
selecting ok to overlay should work or option should be to tell user to
remove old one first (or have it remove it for you, or rename it .old)

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

INVALID ?

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/

"[...]
All Systems

    * Prior to installing Firefox 1.0.1, please ensure that the directory you've
chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Firefox
installations. [...]"

So ?

Comment 2

[fish]

(In reply to comment #1)
> So ?

if you don't happen to read that part and run the installer (gonna be a common
thing) and you choose firefox-installer to be the install dir (it is the 
default) it takes you to a page that says this:

The selected directory already contains a Firefox installation. To
delete /usr/local/pkg/firefox-installer completely, please press the
'Delete Directory' button. Your Firefox settings should not be
affected. Or, please press the 'Cancel' button and choose a different
destination directory.

so if you hit "delete" it deletes the installer dir (the one you are in!)
and you're hosed.

i think the releases should be called firefox-x.y.z-installer then you
have unique names, we end up having to create symlinks to the dirs so
we know what version it is just by looking at the dir - most gnu and other
opensource stuff uses version numbers in the names.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

the default install destination was firefox-installer because of evil bug
234665.  With that fixed, this shouldn't be a problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243665 ***