Non-Trivial Package Update Example

Question

I'm trying to get an update server going, but I'm just not succeeding. I've instrumented the Joomla update code, and it's finding the update on my server, and it identifies it as an update, but it's failing in the step where it matches up the found update to an installed extension. I'm actually trying to do a "package".

Are updates supported for packages? I'm just checking because I know that there are things like uninstall SQL scripts that aren't supported across all extension types.

Does anyone know of a non-trivial package that has auto-updates I could disassemble and look at?

Answer 1

I'll take a wild guess before you reply to my comment above. In your extension's update XML file, perhaps you have set the type attribute incorrectly for the update server. As it's a package you wish to update, the type needs to be set to collection:

<updateservers>
    <server type="collection" priority="1" name="My Extension Name">http://example.com/update.xml</server>
</updateservers>

Answer 2

That got me on the right track. It's a little non-intuitive that you can't use extension for package. Here's what I ended up with that works.

First, the package manfiest

   <updateservers>
            <server type="collection" priority="1" name="Connect Daily Update Site">http://www.connectdaily.com/joomla/updates/package.xml</server>
    </updateservers>

Now, in package.xml

<extensionset name="Connect Daily" description="Connect Daily Events Calendar System">
 <extension name="Connect Daily Package"   element="pkg_connectdaily"     type="package"   version="0.9.2" detailsurl="http://www.connectdaily.com/joomla/updates/pkg.xml"/>
</extensionset>

finally, pkg.xml

<updates>
    <update>
            <name>Connect Daily</name>
            <description>Connect Daily Events Calendar System</description>
            <element>connectdaily</element>
            <type>package</type>
            <version>0.9.2</version>
            <infourl title="Connect Daily">http://www.connectdaily.com/joomla/</infourl>
            <downloads>
                    <downloadurl type="upgrade" format="zip">http://www.connectdaily.com/joomla/updates/pkg_connectdaily-0.9.2.zip</downloadurl>
            </downloads>
            <tags>
                    <tag>stable</tag>
            </tags>
            <maintainer>George Sexton</maintainer>
            <maintainerurl>http://www.connectdaily.com/</maintainerurl>
            <section>Updates</section>
            <targetplatform name="joomla" version="3.[23456789]"/>
    </update>
</updates>