313395 - "Check for update" only pulls next incremental update, not all available ones

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 306999

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

After using the nightly build for several weeks, and installing the daily
updates almost every day, to my surprise I found out after a casual check today
that I was running a week behind.

Further investigation shows that everytime I check for an update, only the delta
to the next day's build is sent.

There should be a mechanism to send several deltas at once, and apply them in
order, I think. People might be misled into thinking that they are running an
up-to-date build - "oh, I just updated, I'm fine" when they are, in fact, not.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a several-days-old nightly build
2. Check for update
3. Restart

Actual Results:  
The "about" window now reports the build from the day after is installed

Expected Results:  
"About" window should show today's build as installed.

The same problem is experienced with Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 306999 ***