How do I get better visibility to revisions that PMPC staff make to an update/app after its initial publication in the PMPC catalog? I'm assuming that most revisions are to installable/installed rules or pre-install scripts and such but that is based on the couple of revisions I actually reported needed to be done and then I saw the app/update noted as revised in the Publishing Report. I want to know the details of the revisions when I haven't reported a problem.
As an example, I'm trying to determine why some recent Ultraedit updates have not properly updated the registry and have left behind the old version settings in the Uninstall keys. I've contacted the publisher and their first question was whether we had installed MSI's over a prior EXE install and vice versa. We've been using the PMPC patch process for over a year so if that happened it would have been due to an error in the PMPC configuration for the app/update installable rules. Having more details about revisions would allow me to investigate this further.
If there currently is no public record of what a revision contains, I'd suggest that PMPC record this information somewhere on the website and link to it from the Publishing Report. Currently the app name column is clickable for each app/update and it takes you to the vendors change log/release notes page. The revised apps could also be clickable and take you to the PMPC change log page for that revision.
As an example, I'm trying to determine why some recent Ultraedit updates have not properly updated the registry and have left behind the old version settings in the Uninstall keys. I've contacted the publisher and their first question was whether we had installed MSI's over a prior EXE install and vice versa. We've been using the PMPC patch process for over a year so if that happened it would have been due to an error in the PMPC configuration for the app/update installable rules. Having more details about revisions would allow me to investigate this further.
If there currently is no public record of what a revision contains, I'd suggest that PMPC record this information somewhere on the website and link to it from the Publishing Report. Currently the app name column is clickable for each app/update and it takes you to the vendors change log/release notes page. The revised apps could also be clickable and take you to the PMPC change log page for that revision.