Odoo v11: Automatically upgrade all modules mentioned in __manifest.py

3
votes

I have created a startup project myapp_main for all my Odoo projects.

Whenever I install this main project; Odoo installs all depends modules (x, y, z)

Here's manifest.py file:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

{
    'name': 'myapp_main',
    'version': '1.0',
    'summary': 'MyApp main project',
    'depends': ['x',
                'y',
                'z'
                ],
    'demo': [],
    'installable': True,
    'auto_install': False,
    'application': True,
}

This approach works fine for fresh installation but doesn't work when we are upgrading. I expect that all dependent modules should also get auto-upgraded whenever I upgrade the main project.

Has anyone achieved this? Any ideas please.

1
pythonodoo-11
What distribution (if any) do you use? What installation routine do you use? – Dschoni
@Dschoni I am using Community edition – user1
By default it is happening. – Keval Mehta
@KevalMehta No. it is not. – user1

1 Answers

0
votes

The Odoo system automatically updates all dependent modules, i.e. those modules, that depend on updated modules.

The depends clause lists all modules that your module depends on. That means that if you update any of x, y or z, your module will also be automatically updated, but not the other way around.

If you want to update x, y and z whenever your module is updated, you need to add your module in the depends list of x, y and z. This may not be trivial/possible, if you are not their maintainer, to modify their manifest file. Sometimes, an (otherwise empty) package is used to group a whole set of related modules together this way.

If x, y and z do not technically depend on your module in the first place, there seems to be no reason to update them.