84516 - Upgrading from 6.0/6.01 to current fails on Macintosh

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[Jimmy Lee]

Build: 2001-06-07-03-0.9.1(MAC)

1. From 6.0/6.01, open 
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/2001-06-07-03-0.9.1/updat
e.html
2. Click Launch XPInstall button
3. Click OK button from Items to Install
4. When completed installing, exit browser
5. Launch browser

RESULT:
New splash screen appears.  Files are shown as being registered.  Splash screen 
dismisses and browser does not launch.  There are several "-1" and "-2" files 
in the directory (many in Chrome and Components)  No noticeable errors in 
Install.log.

EXPECTED RESULT:
Browser launches with updated version/release.  No "-1" and "-2" files.

Comment 1

[Jimmy Lee]

Nominating for beta.  This breaks the ability of updating from website from 
6.0/6.01 to current.  This appears to also breaks the user's current working 
browser.

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

adding Don and Samir to the CC: list because they might already know the problem 
and a potential fix.

Comment 3

[Jussi-Pekka Mantere]

Removing nsenterprise nomination.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

We need to fix this, or else we won't ever have the smartupdate option.

Comment 5

[Sean Su]

agreed.  marking 0.9.4.  I had done some work on the mac .xpi files themselves 
to delete obsolete files on installation.  I wonder if that file list is now 
stale?

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This may be specific to the 6.0-timeframe codebase, and if so we probably won't
fix it.

Is there a problem upgrading from mozilla0.9.3 or 6.1 to the latest build?

Comment 7

[Syd Logan]

This seems to work fine when using Netscape 6.1 to upgrade to a nightly version 
on sweetlou. I can't fix this bug in 6.01, it is already shipped. I'm presuming 
that the problem doesn't exist in 6.1 and marking Worksforme.

Comment 8

[Jimmy Lee]

Build: 2001-08-23-08-trunk(MAC)

I am able to successfully update.html from 6.1 to a nightly build.  Sanity
checks appear to work fine.  Marking Verified.