Update behaviour - Updates applied/added to wrong directory in theme [#1024022]

I noticed a strange behaviour during the update process via the admin themes interface (appearance>update).
A new folder is installed into the Omega-folder with every update process (see screenshot).

I‘m not quite sure if it‘s caused by the omega-theme, but the problem occurs only with the omega theme. Other themes are updating correct. I‘m testing on a local MAMP installation and maybe it is related to my OS/MAMP, but I don‘t have a second PC to verify this. Maybe somebady can clarify this.

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#1	Finder.png	52 KB	Gluhm

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Comment #1

Gluhm CreditAttribution: Gluhm commented 12 January 2011 at 09:14

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Forgot screenshot.

Comment #2

nerilka CreditAttribution: nerilka commented 12 January 2011 at 11:24

I have the same problem. Each time I update omega, a folder omega is created inside the folder omega, etc...

Comment #3

himerus CreditAttribution: himerus commented 12 January 2011 at 14:12

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» himerus

I've not seen this.... but ALSO, not used the "automated" update via the administrative interface.

I use drush to update locally and on my server, and all works fine.

I'm willing to bet (but I'll have to investigate) that this is a core issue with that, and the way that in the root Omega folder (I'm not the only one to do it this way) there are no .info files, and only subfolders essentially with the themes in there. (that was done for a reason)

I'll investigate and see what I can find...

Comment #4

himerus CreditAttribution: himerus commented 12 January 2011 at 16:29

Would it be possible for you to perform a test for me? I don't have any of my sites setup to use FTP access, and can't test the update feature locally.

I think it may be because of the way Omega organizing the directory, and I'd like you to test another theme that uses a similar method. Fusion & Genesis don't have anything other than dev releases, so can't test those, but I think testing Adaptive theme the same way will help me understand.

http://drupal.org/node/942982

Download the beta-1 version, then you should be asked to update to beta2.

Please let me know if the problem happens there as well... If so, then this is a core issue with that update functionality.

Comment #5

Gluhm CreditAttribution: Gluhm commented 13 January 2011 at 15:00

I tested the update-process and can confirm that the AT-Theme also duplicates folders using the core build in update procedure. It seems to be a Drupal 7 problem and not related to the Omega theme.

Sorry for for the inconvenience.

Comment #6

himerus CreditAttribution: himerus commented 13 January 2011 at 15:15

Title:	Update behaviour - creates new folders during every update	» Update behaviour - Updates applied/added to wrong directory in theme
Project:	Omega	» Drupal core
Version:	7.x-2.x-dev	» 7.0
Component:	Miscellaneous	» update.module
Assigned:	himerus	» Unassigned
Priority:	Normal	» Major

So, the issue seems to be that core when pushing those updates via the interface is not respecting themes (modules too??) that don't actually have a template.php or .info file in the root of the directory. I have not tested (or have an environment to test) the FTP updates via the browser.

Many popular themes structure their file systems this way to allow for starterkit, base, admin, etc. themes all in the same package.

Moving this issue to Drupal Core > update.module.