567080 - extensions.sqlite not updated correctly

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

I'm running Fennec + xulrunner (20100515) and noticed the following:

I have system addons installed in $FENNEC/extensions which had maxversion set to 1.1.* and I'm running 2.0a1pre now. So they were disabled correctly.
I've bumped the maxversion for those addons and restarted Fennec so that the changes would get picked up but they weren't. Addons are still disabled and so I was checking extensions.rdf (finding out that the data there is migrated to extensions.sqlite apparently). Also checked extensions.sqlite then and the maxversion there is still 1.1.* instead of 2.0.*.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

What platform are you testing on? Do you know what filesystem your profile uses?

Comment 2

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

Linux ARM
FS: ext4

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Do you happen to know if the modification time of the directory containing the add-on changed when you modified the install.rdf file?

Comment 4

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

In the case I noticed it I haven't edited the install.rdf directly but replaced the system below the profile. So it can happen that mtime is the same systemwise while contents have changed :-(
For systems using an image which can be replaced/updated that's probably a valid usecase.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

You could argue that we should check the modification time of install.rdf rather than (or as well as) the directory, but it sounds like that wouldn't help you here anyway. We can't reload install.rdf on every startup, it'd kill Ts.

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

We can't just update the db on every startup so I don't think there is anything we can do here.