Posted by stri_berry on July 26, 2010 at 10:03am
When an install profile is packaged, it contains specific versions of its modules. This total package gets a version number.
e.g. Cool Profile v1.32 = module1 v1.19 + module2 v.3.48 + module3 v0.80
I heard that to maintain the integrity of the install profiles versioning system, its individual modules don't auto-update themselves like a module you've installed yourself would. If this is true, I understand the reasoning behind this, but can someone confirm if it's indeed true?
If it's true, wouldn't that make Install Profiles less attractive since you can't be assured that the maintainer of the Install Profile will release a new version quickly if one of the contained modules had a security update?
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True
The package doesn't auto-update itself. Things that are packaged with a version can't change over time. See http://drupal.org/node/642116#versions for more.