339977 - Partial Updates vs. New Search Engine System

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[John Liebson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060601 BonEcho/2.0a3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060601 BonEcho/2.0a3

I have an alternate Google search engine,  google.xml in the profile. Until a few days ago, I could simply remove the default google.xml file from the installation folder, and the search engine manager would recognize the alternate file.

However, with the recent revision to the installation program, if I remove google.xml from the installation \searchplugins folder, partial updates fail and I have to download and install the complete nightly update.

In addition, if I use the Bon Echo search engine manager to hide the default google search engine and restart Bon Echo, the manager will not find the google.xml file that is the the profile \searchplugins folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Please see the "Detaills" box, which at least attempts to delineate the problem.
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Actual Results:  
As above, in "Details".

Expected Results:  
One way or another, I should be able to have an alternate google.xml file in the Bon Echo profile and continue to receive partial nightly updates.

I'm marking this as major severity, as (to me), it is a serious problem. I've placed this under "Software Update", but would have no objection to it being moved to another category: I don't know if the problem is in the updating system or in the search engine function, or even if both.

Comment 1

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

Attachment: update.manifest for win 2006053104->2006060104 partial update

This is biting because the fix in bug 325561 (use patch-if instead of patch) never made it to the nightly update making machine.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

As a temporary workaround you could rename your profile google plugin. It seems to make difference between Google Search and GOOGLE Search.
Don't know how clever these things turn out to be after a few days (maybe they have learning capacities and decide to strike back) :)

Comment 3

[John Liebson]

In reply to Comment #2: Renaming the file to GOOGLE.xml and then to Test.xml made no difference, as in neither case did Bon Echo find the renamed file.

Comment 4

[Jackie Liu]

Perhaps you may be interested in Bug 335102?