[wp-testers] Testers wanted: Plugin update testing

[Kirk M]

Just an update. Updated to the latest trunk r7246 and tried another plugin 
auto upgrade
 (changed Akismet's version #) and received the following this time:

---Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.zip

---Unpacking the update

---Incompatible archive: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of 
Central Dir Record signature

Previous update was to r7236 and the output was this:

---Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.zip

---Unpacking the update

---Incompatible archive: Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

r7222 gave me this:

---Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.zip

---Unpacking the update

---Incompatible archive:

If there's any info anyone needs such as PHPinfo() output, list of activated 
plugins or anything else please
let me know and I'll be glad to provide.

Bluehost (no restrictions of any kind)

PHP 5.2.5

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From: "DD32" <wordpress at dd32.id.au>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 7:58 PM
To: <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>
Subject: [wp-testers] Testers wanted: Plugin update testing

> Hi all Testers,
> Wordpress 2.5 is due to be released sometime soon(When ever its ready i 
> believe - But thats another threads discussion).
>
> But so far theres been very little bug reports flowing in for the plugin 
> updater, So, I ask of you, The Testers, To grab the latest SVN copy of 
> WordPress, install an old plugin (One thats available on WordPress.org) 
> and hit the "updgrade automatically" link on the plugins page.
>
>
> An alternative to downloading a older version of the plugin, is to simply 
> change the version header of a existing plugin, For testing, i've mainly 
> been using akismet:
> (after changing)
> <?php
> /*
> Plugin Name: Akismet
> Version: 2.1.0
> Author: Matt Mullenweg
> Author URI: http://photomatt.net/
> */
>
> Do the upgrade proceedure and it should click click over pretty smoothly 
> to update it
> If anyone has a problem while attempting an upgrade, Please post back with 
> the messages shown on the upgrade page. (I'll then follow up with a plugin 
> i have which should help pin-point the problem)
>
>
> Note:
> How the upgrade proceedure works:
> + WordPress notices theres a new plugin version available, displays links 
> on plugin page
> + User clicks upgrade link
> + WordPress asks for FTP details to connect to the local account to 
> perform the upgrade (Note: At present, FTP is FORCED to be used for beta 
> testing)
> + WordPress connects via ftp
> + WordPress attempts to locate the WordPress folder
> + WordPress downloads the latest .zip
> + WordPRess extracts the files from the .zip to a temporary directory
> + WordPress deletes the old plugin files
> + WordPress copies the new files into their place
> + WordPress deletes its temporary files, And upgrade complete
>
> It could fail at any one of those steps, And given the number of failure 
> points, I'm supprised theres only been 2 reports of it not working 
> correctly (Both since fixed up)
>
> I also stress, WordPress trunk is still pre-beta stage, It is not designed 
> to work in production environments right now, While i use it on a live 
> site without any problems, I cant guarantee you wont have trouble, Try 
> running it on a test install first, then it everythings running allright, 
> only then decide to try it on your live setup :)
>
> Cheers,
> DD32
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