Updating an application that runs with admin privileges

Hm. Is there a more useful error in the console output?

Mar 25 01:13:50 Pierre-Luc-Brunets-Mac-Pro Edgar[84389]: [Update] didFindValidUpdate: http://intranet/download/edgar-1.4.zip
Mar 25 01:14:01 Pierre-Luc-Brunets-Mac-Pro Edgar[84389]: [Update] willInstallUpdate: http://intranet/download/edgar-1.4.zip
Mar 25 01:14:04 Pierre-Luc-Brunets-Mac-Pro Edgar[84389]: Sparkle Error: An error occurred while installing the update. Please try again later.

That's it :(

Are you using Sparkle 1.5b6? If so, would you mind trying a more recent version built from http://github.com/andymatuschak/Sparkle/archives/master?

That's the version I'm running:

Pierre-Luc-Brunets-Mac-Pro:Sparkle fuitad$ git log
commit 3f502b61517abd3a652b672168af5244e2bdc23e
Author: Andy Matuschak <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Feb 25 00:46:57 2010 -0800

    Fixing bug #527318, some minor Spanish layout issues.

Looks like the latest git version.

Ah, then I'm afraid the stock solutions I try when I have no idea have failed. :)

So, the fact that it fails in the old version of the app (rather than during the relaunch) tells me that it's the copy or deleting operation of the .app that's failing, not the launching.

Since you've got your own build of Sparkle, you could break on SUBasicUpdateDriver.m's abortUpdate and look up the stack to see what's caused the failure.

Alternately, you could email me a binary, but given that this is an internal tool, I can understand that not being a good option.

"Since you've got your own build of Sparkle, you could break on SUBasicUpdateDriver.m's abortUpdate and look up the stack to see what's caused the failure."

If I'm including a framework in my application, how do I break one of it's source file? I'm a little lost here :).

After adding some additional error logging, I ended up getting this

Mar 28 23:48:23 Pierre-Luc-Brunets-Mac-Pro Pocket Gnome[18395]: Sparkle Error: Sparkle Updater: Possible attack in progress! Attempting to "upgrade" from 1.4.4.205.3 to (null). Aborting update.
Mar 28 23:48:23 Pierre-Luc-Brunets-Mac-Pro Pocket Gnome[18395]: Sparkle Error (continued): (null)

Not sure how relevant this is.

Ah! That's very relevant. That means Sparkle thinks the CFBundleVersion key in your update's Info.plist is empty. Is that the case?

Did this ever get solved? I printed the same info and I get: 695 to (null)

And unfortunately I'm running into an issue now where I can't relaunch the app, I'm wondering if it's related (https://answers.launchpad.net/sparkle/+question/153985)

Getting "(null)" suggests that the update was extracted, and the archive was searched, and something that looks like an update was found, but that its Info.plist doesn't have a CFBundleVersion key.