284702 - Installation of af-ZA language pack failes because of install.rdf is not correct

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: Other, defect)

Description

[Teune van Steeg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

When installing the af-ZA (Afrikaans) language pack from
ftp.mozilla.org/pub//mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/win32/xpi/, you get the
following error:
The install-<three random characters>.rdf is not wellformed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try installing the af-ZA language pack
2.notice the installation error
3.

Actual Results:  
installation fails

Expected Results:  
installation should work.

I noticed that when I removed the first blank line in the install.rdf file
(before the <?xml version="1.0"?> line), the installation worked.
This was with a downloaded copy, installed from the hard drive.

BTW the unmodified downloaded copy did also not install because of the error

Comment 1

[Mathias Wittlock]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No
IDN) Firefox/1.4

Confirmed. The supplied fix (removing initial blank line in install.rdf) also
seems to fix this (although I had to bump the maxVersion for it to finish the
install).

Whoever maintains this file (or anyone with privilidges) should just remove the
blank line and repackage this.

Comment 2

[Dwayne Bailey]

This is now not the latest af-ZA build.  This whitespace before XML header was fixed in the Translate Toolkit so we shouldn't see this problem again.