Final Testing Done!

Mozilla issued an update to Thunderbird - version 45.1.1 today. I've downloaded and installed it with the new version of mozupdate (after correcting a small syntax error where I used the arithmetic expression '<=' in a conditional expression ([[...]]) rather than '-le').

Here's the output from the update...

root@wideboy:~# newmozupdate ~steve/Dow*/thunderbird-45.1.1.tar.bz2
Install thunderbird-45.1.1 (y/n): y

installing thunderbird-45.1.1
creating directory for thunderbird-45.1.1
extracting files from tar archive
Updating thunderbird symlink
Archiving installation file /home/steve/Downloads/thunderbird-45.1.1.tar.bz2 to /other/archive

Remove unused old versions of thunderbird (y/n): y
removing thunderbird-45.0

Remove older versions of thunderbird from archive directory (y/n): y
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.6.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.5.1.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.5.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.4.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.3.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.2.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.1.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-38.0.1.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.7.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.5.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.4.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.3.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.2.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.1.2.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.1.1.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.1.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-31.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-24.6.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-24.5.0.tar.bz2
removed /other/archive/thunderbird-24.4.0.tar.bz2
thunderbird updated to thunderbird-45.1.1
root@wideboy:~#

That's freed up a considerable amount of disk space, more than 800 Mbytes by a rough calculation.  I will now start using the revised script for future updates.

As a small aside, I don't remember mentioning that one of my design criteria was that this update script should not compromise any running copies of firefox or thunderbird.  The new installation won't be used until the application is exited and then started again, and I still have the previous version ready to go should there be an issue with the update.


Steve Austin, 1 June 2016