315386 - Auto Update downloads and install everytime

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 314684

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Stijn Goris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

The autoupdate installation of firefox 1.5 beta 2 gets installed correctly but always redownloads and reinstalls. It's now the 6th time the update is installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefoxand go to step 1
2. Update is downloaden
3. I get asked to install the new update
4. Close Firefox
5. Open firefox 

Actual Results:  
Update is downloaden and installed again (and again)

Expected Results:  
One time installation of the update

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i586-pc-msvc

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=beta --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding --enable-svg --enable-canvas --enable-update-packaging

Comment 1

[Stijn Goris]

Attachment: Downloading of update with about box telling the update is already installed

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

See comment 63 of bug 314684 for a work around.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 314684 ***