Bundle.update() is not supported by Felix on the system bundle...as far
as I know. It really depends on how we want this to work, but it might
be a little tricky.
-> richard
Felix Meschberger (JIRA) wrote:
Support updating the system bundle
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Key: FELIX-875
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-875
Project: Felix
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Web Console
Affects Versions: webconsole-1.2.2
Reporter: Felix Meschberger
Assignee: Felix Meschberger
Fix For: webconsole-1.2.4
Currently the web console does not support updating the system bundle. A simple
enhancement in the InstallAction class handling bundle update supports this
update.
Background: When a bundle file is submitted for installaiton (or update) in the
respective form on the bundle page, the web console analyses the bundle file to
find a matching bundle to update by the symbolic name. If no matching bundle is
found, the bundle is installed as a new bundle.
This mechanism could also be used to update the system bundle. But the symbolic name of the system bundle is
special, since the "system.bundle" strings is not the required name but just an alias. To sitll
support the system bundle, the InstallAction checker for the bundle to update should treat the strings
"system.bundle" (the defined alias for the symbolic name) and "System Bundle" (the
defined location for the system bundle) as indications to update the system bundle.
Generally, this may just restart the framework and not actually update the
system bundle. But there may be cases, where this already helps.In addition it
might prevent potential problems, if some administrator tries to install a
bundle, which happens to have the respective symbolic name.
