#12647: updater needs to support use of symlinks
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Reporter: mcs | Owner: mcs
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Firefox Patch Issues | Version:
Keywords: | Actual Points:
Parent ID: #4234 | Points:
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In #11429, the "second Tor Browser dock icon on Mac OS" problem was solved
by using a different Info.plist for the browser app bundle that is used by
meek. Symlinks are used to create the second app bundle (to avoid
duplicating all of the browser binaries).
Unfortunately, based on code inspection, it looks like the Mozilla updater
implementation does not support symlinks. I will confirm next week by
doing some testing, but assuming I am correct we will need to either:
(1) Patch the updater code to handle symlinks.
or
(2) Avoid symlinks in the package (but I do not have a better idea for
solving #11429).
I have not yet scoped the work for (1); hopefully it will not be too much
work. If we always remove symlinks before applying an update, it may be
enough to add support for a "addsymlink" verb in the update manifest.
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