The zen theme will continue to say that it need updates on the Available updates page after updating and rebuilding the registry, if the primary zen theme is not enabled alongside any Sub-themes created under Zen 6.x-1.0 that is in use.

i.e. I created zen_subtheme under 6.x-1.0 and it is the only activated theme. I update zen to 6.x-1.1, but am still told that zen still needs to be updated. If I activate zen on the theme page the notifacation goes away.

I am not sure if this just needs documentiation to leave the zen them on, or if it something to be rectified. Peace.

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beatnikdude’s picture

beatnikdude commented

I had this same experience. Are you supposed to need the main Zen theme enabled?

RajRaj’s picture

RajRaj commented

a dirty way which works is by updating the *.info file you created for your subtheme to the following state at the bottom:


; Information added by drupal.org packaging script on 2009-02-13
; fake version change to 6.x-1.1 from 6.x-1.0
version = "6.x-1.1"
core = "6.x"
project = "zen"
datestamp = "1257845814"
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talatnat commented

The 6.x-1.1 Starterkit does not have the version and datestamp info at the bottom of the starterkit.info.txt file. This was done in 6.x.1.1 to fix this problem (Version Notes: #254821: Sub-theme's .info file triggers incorrect "out of date" flag in update module).

So, if you are using a subtheme created in a previous version (original poster's case), you can just delete the six lines relating to version and timestamp from your Subtheme.info file. The Available Updates module will take the version number from the /zen/zen/zen.info file, and you should be fine. It should make you forwardly compatible, rather than having to change the version and timestamp each time.

johnalbin’s picture

johnalbin
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commented
Category: feature » support
Priority: Minor » Normal
Status: Active » Fixed

Yep, please delete those lines from your sub-theme and Update module will no longer think your Zen base theme is out-of-date. See the upgrade docs at http://drupal.org/node/219527

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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Stomper commented

Is the version information of the subtheme supposed to auto update when zen is upgraded? It hasn't for me.

In my case after the upgrade, zen core displays the upgraded version number, but my subtheme has no version number displayed on the themes page. Additionally, the subtheme styling functions fine on admin pages but not on non-admin pages, my custom favicon does not display either.

My upgrade path was 6.1.0 to 6.1.2