424005 - Add-ons fail to install from preview

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Dictionaries, defect)

Description

[Basil Hashem [:baz]]

Attachment: Lang Pack error

Using Firefox 2 I was unable to install any dictionary or language pack. See screenshots for examples

Comment 1

[Basil Hashem [:baz]]

Attachment: Dict err

Comment 2

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Actually, all add-ons are affected. That looks like REPO_PATH in config.php is not pointed to the add-ons file repository.

Jeremy, could you please check on that? Does preview even have access to the add-ons file repo, or is it going to be a big deal?

Comment 3

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Would it be a problem if preview had r/w access to REPO_PATH?  If it is should I make a copy or ?

Comment 4

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

We just discussed this in the channel and came to the conclusion that r/w access to the production repository is not good because people may play randomly with preview, not expecting it to change their production data.

Do you use a script when you push the production DB to preview? Maybe you could add an rsync for the repository tree to it? As far as I can tell, these two can always happen together.

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Feel free to reassign it back to me when preview has a repository copy.

Comment 6

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Did this yesterday with a fresh db import.

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Seems to do the trick; tried a not-so-random sampling of top add-ons and themes for Firefox, as well as SeaMonkey, Sunbird, and Thunderbird add-ons/themes...

Verified FIXED (stillWorkingBeforeWePushToProd++)