[wpkg-users] wpkg - how to upgrade between different products like 'firefox 3' to 'firefox 4'?

[cleitet at gmail.com]

Hi!

I always uninstall previous version's package and install a new on
unrelated upgrades. Is there any particular reason you want to avoid
this?

-CL

2011/8/31 Urs Rau (UK) <urs.rau at om.org>
>
> Friends,
>
> Has anybody mastered how to upgrade between versions  of firefox or thunderbird or even nod32?
>
> We currently have a "nod32 v3" wpkg package and a "nod32 v4" wpkg package, or a "firefox 3" and a "firefox 4" and "firefox" 5" and "firefox 6" wpkg package.
>
> Has anybody worked out a clean way of upgrading between versions that wpkg considers to be non-related?
>
> Something along the lines of a "upgrade" section in the xml that will actively edit the "wpkg.xml" db file pn the machine and do something along the lines of
>
> sed -e 's/firefox 3/firefox 4/' on the wpkg.xml file and so consolidate different packages and make sure they can be upgraded in this way?
>
> Thanks for any pointers or solutions to this problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> Urs Rau
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