301253 - Support application uninstaller

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

Support application uninstaller

Several things need to change:

 1-  When a patch is applied, we need to record a changelist in the format
     expected by UninstallFirefox.exe.  This means writing an install_wizardN.log
     file in the uninstall subdirectory.

 2-  Include UninstallFirefox.exe in the MAR file so that we are always running
     the proper version of the uninstaller.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Need this for b4

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

Attachment: test script that converts update.log to install wizard format

This is just some JS code that I whipped up to test converting update.log to
the install wizard format that the uninstaller knows how to read.  I still need
to add code to write out registry key information.  Once that's complete, I'll
be able to test that the uninstaller knows how to process the generated log,
and then I can just add this code to nsPostUpdateWin.js.

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

Attachment: v1 patch

Initial patch.	I still need to finish testing this before it will be ready to
land.  And, this does nothing about ensuring that we include the latest
uninstaller bits in the MAR file.

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

OK, this mostly works.  The uninstaller appears to still leave a few directories
and files hanging around, so a bit more tweaking is probably in order.

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

There's a bug in the v1 patch.  The directory list is not properly sorted, which
causes some directories to not be deleted.  New patch coming up...

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

Attachment: v1.1 patch

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

fixed-on-trunk