We have a theme component that we install via the rake command. The plugin and its installation via the rake command works perfectly fine. The upgrade also works perfectly fine when we do it from the Admin UI e.g. /admin/customize/themes/40. The problem arises when we try to upgrade it from the comm…

Providing more details of the issue. Running the rake command for upgrade doesn’t have any visible change to my theme component, but after that the Admin UI thinks that the upgrade has been applied (missed capturing the screenshot). After a subsequent change in my theme component, the Admin UI is n…

Hi @markvanlan , thank you for the your work on the rake command to install a theme! Would you know why the upgrade via rake install is not working.

I will look into this a bit later into this week. I wasn’t aware that the rake command was not working

I couldn’t figure out why the update doesn’t work, but thought of a workaround–adding an uninstall command. Uninstalling the theme before using the rake install command seems to be working. I raised a short PR to check if this approach is ok to pursue: [WIP] FEATURE: Rake task to uninstall theme by…

Something is very weird here. When ThemesInstallTask updates a remote theme, the remote info is updated correctly (latest sha is shown, and commits_behind is 0 as you noted) [Screenshot from 2020-06-29 10-02-25] But the scss is not updated in the database. I was assuming it was a cache not bustin…

I got to the bottom of the problem and created a PR. I explain the issue in the description. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10143 Merged! Update is fixed.

Theme component upgrade via rake not working

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markvanlan June 29, 2020, 2:09pm 6

I apologize for forgetting to circle back on this!

I have an idea of why this may not be updating. If I am correct, this should be a very quick fix.

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Theme component upgrade via rake not working

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