[Mozilla Enterprise] Again on extensions management...

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Mike Kaply
  In chel di` si favelave...

> Are there situations where you don't want to update extensions?

Sincerely, not. But sometime happen that some extensions have bugs, or
worster have bug that impact only on my particular configuration in my
organization (and so, are a bit harder to be quickly fixed upstream).

So, i want to be able to rollback, if needed... or at least to delay
upgrade until i'm pretty sure there's no incompatibilities.


> Extensions are updated when Firefox is updated and checks are done
> approximately every 24 hours.

And on subsequent reply to Kris:

>> What about installing via
>> ExtensionSettings.installation_mode.force_installed, with install_url being
>> a local file location (like 'FF/extensions ') ?
>> [...]
>> This implies that we can deploy the xpi and control versioning that way.
> That will work, but if it's a public extension with an update URL, it will get
> updated.

I've think about that, really, but creating a 'local infrastructure'
(ok, it a simple webspace but...) to installa extensions seems a bit
too much also for me...


> So you would turn off extension updates, and when you put a new version on the
> local file system, it would get installed because the policy code explicitly
> installs the new version (it checks the version in the local file)

Mike, sorry, i need some clarification on this. You are speaking about
'distribution/extensions/' folder?

So:

1) i can put extensions (XPI) in distribution/extensions/ folder

2) i can lock removal and disable extensions update via policy

3) every FF/TB update, and anyway at most every 24 hour, FF/TB check
 for extensions update in distribution/extensions/ folder and, if
 needed, update it, EVEN IF extensions update is disabled.


It is true?!


Thanks.


PS: There's a wiki page about this somewhere?

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