Re: Updates applied to "Contents/MacOS" instead of application directory (.app), causing all updates to either fail or break the app XULRunner 17.0

Got help working around this: https://github.com/neam/webapp-xul-wrapper/commit/9f1fe3facb57967a1ca946fdd7f059ec9d7c791e
Thanks! :)

On Monday, December 3, 2012 10:28:45 PM UTC+1, Fredrik Motin wrote:
> This is what happens now: 
> 
> 1. Updates checked for in version 0.0.1, says that 0.0.2 is available 
> 
> 2. The partial update downloads and applies as per above, and a restart is prompted 
> 
> 3. After restart, the old version is still running, and checking for updates downloads the full update 
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> 4. After restart, the full update installs and lands in Contents/MacOS/Contents/MacOS and Contents/MacOS/Contents/Resources etc, and the previous files are removed, thus leaving the app in a broken state, unable to run. 
> 
> 
> 
> Running "cp -r Contents/MacOS/* ." from the .app directory unbreaks it and allows starting the new updated version of the app. 
> 
> 
> 
> For instance, here is the log of a very small partial update: 
> 
> 
> 
> SOURCE DIRECTORY /Users/motin/tmp/My App.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/updates/0 
> 
> DESTINATION DIRECTORY /Users/motin/tmp/My App.app/Contents/MacOS 
> 
> UPDATE TYPE partial 
> 
> PREPARE PATCH Contents/Resources/chrome/app.jar 
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> PREPARE PATCH Contents/Resources/application.ini 
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> PREPARE ADD Contents/MacOS/libsoftokn3.chk 
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> PREPARE ADD Contents/MacOS/libnssdbm3.chk 
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> PREPARE ADD Contents/MacOS/libfreebl3.chk 
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> PREPARE PATCH Contents/Info.plist 
> 
> PREPARE ADD precomplete 
> 
> EXECUTE PATCH Contents/Resources/chrome/app.jar 
> 
> unable to open destination file: Contents/Resources/chrome/app.jar, err: 2 
> 
> ### execution failed 
> 
> FINISH PATCH Contents/Resources/chrome/app.jar 
> 
> backup_restore: backup file doesn't exist: Contents/Resources/chrome/app.jar.moz-backup 
> 
> FINISH PATCH Contents/Resources/application.ini 
> 
> backup_restore: backup file doesn't exist: Contents/Resources/application.ini.moz-backup 
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> FINISH ADD Contents/MacOS/libsoftokn3.chk 
> 
> backup_restore: backup file doesn't exist: Contents/MacOS/libsoftokn3.chk.moz-backup 
> 
> FINISH ADD Contents/MacOS/libnssdbm3.chk 
> 
> backup_restore: backup file doesn't exist: Contents/MacOS/libnssdbm3.chk.moz-backup 
> 
> FINISH ADD Contents/MacOS/libfreebl3.chk 
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> backup_restore: backup file doesn't exist: Contents/MacOS/libfreebl3.chk.moz-backup 
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> FINISH PATCH Contents/Info.plist 
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> backup_restore: backup file doesn't exist: Contents/Info.plist.moz-backup 
> 
> FINISH ADD precomplete 
> 
> backup_restore: backup file doesn't exist: precomplete.moz-backup 
> 
> failed: 6 
> 
> calling QuitProgressUI 
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> 
> 
> The DESTINATION DIRECTORY ought to be /Users/motin/tmp/My App.app 
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> 
> 
> Updates work fine on Windows and Linux. Any help appreciated! 
> 
> 
> 
> PS I tried with 17.0.1 but then the app fails completely with "Could not find the Mozilla runtime." regardless of what I do. Anyway I didn't find any update-related patches between 17.0 and 17.0.1 so I believe an upgrade to 17.0.1 wouldn't help anyway.