[wpkg-users] upgrade question

Mark Nienberg gmane at tippingmar.com
Thu Nov 8 01:21:12 CET 2007


Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Mark Nienberg schrieb:
>> I'm a little unclear on the <upgrade cmd='something'> in packages.xml.
>>
>> If the package is already installed on a client
>> and then the revision number is incremented in the "packages.xml" file,
>> will the client always run the upgrade command
>> or will it test the check condition and only run the upgrade if the check fails?
> 
> Upon execution, wpkg.js checks which packages need to be installed. 
> Then, it checks in the local database (wpkg.xml) if the package is not 
> there already, but also, it compares the local versus remote revision.
> 
> If the local revision is lower than the remote, <upgrade 
> cmd='something'> are started. The upgrade procedure is started even if 
> all check conditions are met.
> 
> 
Thank you, I added that to the wiki.  Now the obvious follow-up question:

After the upgrade command us run, does wpkg test the check conditions?  I'm guessing 
"No".

Mark



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