Hello Rainer, Jason, list :) let me attach my opinion to this discussion. > > So I change revision="4" to revision="3.6.3" for Firefox (let's > assume, for the sake of clarity, that the package revision "4" had > previously installed Firefox 3.6.2) As far as WPKG is concerned, this > is a "downgrade", so it will look for downgrade actions. > > But here I run into trouble, because I don't have any downgrade > actions; I'm not performing a "software version downgrade" ... I'm > performing an "upgrade" with a package revision that just so happens > to be less than the previously installed version. > > It is not WPKG's job to decide if this kind of scenario is what it > considers a "downgrade" or an "upgrade". But I do think WPKG's job > here is to do something other than telling me, "You have no downgrade > actions defined, so I will do nothing. Sorry!" I think, in this case wpkg should just decrement the revision number, if the checks are true - and there really shouldn't be downgrade commands, if nothing has to be done but changing the revision number. > > You are saying that I should stick with my old revision numbering > scheme, and install Firefox 3.6.3 with revision="5". :( Or > alternatively, copy-paste all of my upgrade actions, and rename the > "upgrade" tags to "downgrade". Even though I am not doing a > downgrade. (Confusing!) But: when you're decreasing the revision number in e.g. the firefox package, and you know that there is a possibility that some of your PCs have an older revision (to take your example: installed is 3.5.9, package has revision 4, you insert revision="3.6.3"), why not just specify downgrade cmds identical to upgrade commands, and all is fine?
*[OT]* the following is perhaps a bit off topic Anyway, firefox is a special case here, and I'm deploying firefox with extensions for quite some time now. For Firefox 3.6.x, I created a new profile/package and use a new, much easier way for the extensions, see wpkg.org wiki at http://wpkg.org/Firefox#Firefox_Extension_Templates. I expected to have some users/pcs which cannot use 3.6.x for some reason, so the only thing I have to do is assigning "firefox35" or "firefox36" profile to the host to change this. Now, what happens, when I like to downgrade assigning "firefox35" instead of "firefox36": firefox-extension(s) are removed, firefox36 is removed, firefox35 is installed, firefox35-extensions are installed (the old way). Other way round, upgrading after assigning "firefox36" to the host: firefox35-extensions are removed, firefox35 is removed, firefox36 is installed, firefox36-extensions are ok. Best regards, Falko ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
