761108 - Maintenance service is always reinstalled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 741174

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[donotreply]

User Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; de) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.64

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 12 was installed, and after that the maintenance service was manually uninstalled (Mozilla Maintenance Service\Uninstall.exe /S). Later on Firefox 13 was installed (Firefox Setup 13.0.exe /S).
OS is Windows XP 32Bit.


Actual results:

After installation of Firefox 13 the maintenance service was installed again.


Expected results:

It is my understanding that updates of Firefox honor the decision that the maintenance service was uninstalled and do not reinstall it on every update. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Windows_Service_Silent_Update#Service_installation states that the service will not be installed if it was previously installed and manually uninstalled.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

It will not be re-installed if it was previously uninstalled via updates.
But if you manually install, then yes it will get installed again unless you uncheck the checkbox for installing it.

I can see you are running the installers silently though, and we should add a command line option for that. I think there is another bug for that but I can't find it at the moment.

Comment 2

[tomorrow]

(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #1)
> It will not be re-installed if it was previously uninstalled via updates.
> But if you manually install, then yes it will get installed again unless you
> uncheck the checkbox for installing it.
> 
> I can see you are running the installers silently though, and we should add
> a command line option for that. I think there is another bug for that but I
> can't find it at the moment.

This?: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741174

Comment 3

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Yup that's it, thanks.