852246 - INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE when installing same version of app via agent on Android 4.2

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing Graveyard :: SUTAgent, defect)

Description

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Google "helpfully" added a "feature" in Android 4.2, which disallows installing an app which is not of a greater version than the one currently installed. In many/most testing scenarios that we care about, this will not be the case.

It turns out that we can disable this new behaviour by passing another argument to pm:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/13772620/295132

Let's do that.

Comment 1

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Attachment: Allow installing over an app with >= version in Android 4.2 via the agent

Comment 2

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8) (PTO back normal Nov 17)]

Comment on attachment 726280 [details] [diff] [review]
Allow installing over an app with >= version in Android 4.2 via the agent

Review of attachment 726280 [details] [diff] [review]:
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nice!

Comment 3

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Inbound: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/9e6e38d4ae0b

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Backed out for build bustage.
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/7c8f36acc3a3

Comment 5

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

(In reply to Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM] from comment #4)
> Backed out for build bustage.
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/7c8f36acc3a3

The current patch doesn't work because it depends on a symbol that's only available in the newest SDK (Android 4.2). Going to need a new plan for detecting 4.2 until we upgrade that...

Comment 6

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Let's try that again: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/6cae06155037

(using a number instead of a symbol per the suggestion of :mbrubeck and :gbrown on irc... works for me locally)

Comment 7

[Mozilla RelEng Bot]

Try run for abe0f1cf5866 is complete.
Detailed breakdown of the results available here:
    https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=abe0f1cf5866
Results (out of 1 total builds):
    failure: 1
Builds (or logs if builds failed) available at:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/[e-mail]-abe0f1cf5866

Comment 8

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6cae06155037