[Exist-open] Package references to old versions persist after package update

[Jo C. <Jo....@ha...>]

 Hi all,

I don't know if others have encountered this problem.  I have a minor patch
to a package to take it from, say, version 1.7 to version 1.8, stored in
XAR files such as package_1.8.xar.

If I do, for example,

import module namespace repo="http://exist-db.org/xquery/repo"
<http://exist-db.org/xquery/repo>;

repo:install-and-deploy-from-db("/db/install/package_1.8.xar")

the files stored at data/expathrepo/package_1.7 are not removed. I  tried
undeploying both packages, removing the hierarchies under
data/expathrepo/package_1.* and redeploying package_1.8.  eXist then fails
to restart with an error that the relevant packages cannot be found under
data/expathrepo/package_1.7 (i.e. the old version).  I located references
to the old version in data/expathrepo/.expath-pkg/packages.{txt,xml}.  If I
delete the reference to the older package from those two files, I can get a
clean start of eXist.  Is that a safe workaround?

System details


eXist Version: 5.0.0
eXist Build: 20190902160649
Operating System: Linux 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 amd64 (Red Hat)
Java Version: 1.8.0_242
Default Encoding: UTF8


Best regards, -- Jo