2010-09-19, 10:02
Hi.
Two issues i encountered in beta 1 and beta 2 with the addon system:
1) Addons being flagged as "broken" in the repository can not be changed in any way by the user. I can only select "changelog" anything else is greyed out.
2) Whenever something goes wrong with downloading the description zip file of an addon, the user is unable to do upgrade or reinstall the addon.
Here it was the skin "alaska mod uni", update didn't work, uninstall did work, but install afterwards did not. Turned out the zip was broken. Debug-log:
After removing the zip file, install was possible again. From withing the gui, the user has no chance in tackling such problems which may not always be user errors.
3) I have added several third party addon repos. When xbmc starts, it informs me that there is an update for one of my repositories (?)
When going into the available update section, i see the mentioned repo.
I can now "indefinitly" parse deeper into that tree:
- click on the repo name
- click available updates for repos
- click on the repo name
- click on available update for repos
- [ad infinitum]
You can see this is handled by the stack, so the 5 steps down must be taken back all the way to leave the dialog with "back" I didn't try to go 255 iteration deeps to see if the process crashes ...
Problem: I can not manually select "update repo". I keep just getting informed. As a user in manual mode there is no way to update the repos themself (./?)
However, when i selected "auto update", that specific repo gets it's update and disappears from the list.
Thank you for this great piece of software. I am one of it's most passionate fans.
best regards
Two issues i encountered in beta 1 and beta 2 with the addon system:
1) Addons being flagged as "broken" in the repository can not be changed in any way by the user. I can only select "changelog" anything else is greyed out.
2) Whenever something goes wrong with downloading the description zip file of an addon, the user is unable to do upgrade or reinstall the addon.
Here it was the skin "alaska mod uni", update didn't work, uninstall did work, but install afterwards did not. Turned out the zip was broken. Debug-log:
Code:
DEBUG: FileManager, processing folder: zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin%2ealaska%2erevisited%2emod%2d1%2e3%2e0%2ezip/
09:46:40 T:140327497910032 M:1064554496 DEBUG: GetZipList - Processing zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin%2ealaska%2erevisited%2emod%2d1%2e3%2e0%2ezip/
09:46:40 T:140327497910032 M:1064554496 DEBUG: ZipManager: broken file special://home/addons/packages/skin.alaska.revisited.mod-1.3.0.zip!
09:46:40 T:140327497910032 M:1064554496 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin%2ealaska%2erevisited%2emod%2d1%2e3%2e0%2ezip/
09:46:40 T:140327497910032 M:1064554496 DEBUG: FileManager: create folder special://home/addons/
09:46:40 T:140327497910032 M:1064554496 DEBUG: GetZipList - Processing zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin%2ealaska%2erevisited%2emod%2d1%2e3%2e0%2ezip/
09:46:40 T:140327497910032 M:1064554496 DEBUG: ZipManager: broken file special://home/addons/packages/skin.alaska.revisited.mod-1.3.0.zip!
09:46:40 T:140327497910032 M:1064554496 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin%2ealaska%2erevisited%2emod%2d1%2e3%2e0%2ezip/After removing the zip file, install was possible again. From withing the gui, the user has no chance in tackling such problems which may not always be user errors.
3) I have added several third party addon repos. When xbmc starts, it informs me that there is an update for one of my repositories (?)
When going into the available update section, i see the mentioned repo.
I can now "indefinitly" parse deeper into that tree:
- click on the repo name
- click available updates for repos
- click on the repo name
- click on available update for repos
- [ad infinitum]
You can see this is handled by the stack, so the 5 steps down must be taken back all the way to leave the dialog with "back" I didn't try to go 255 iteration deeps to see if the process crashes ...
Problem: I can not manually select "update repo". I keep just getting informed. As a user in manual mode there is no way to update the repos themself (./?)
However, when i selected "auto update", that specific repo gets it's update and disappears from the list.
Thank you for this great piece of software. I am one of it's most passionate fans.
best regards
