I don't think there's anything that can be done with the Drupal 6 method of storing role information, but while Features can create new roles it cannot do anything to update roles (since the only piece of information that really belongs to roles is their name), correct?

This should have been obvious to me and i don't know if it should be documented but i'm mostly interested in confirming this is the case. (Posted http://data.agaric.com/raw/features-cannot-update-names-roles before coming over here.)

Thanks.

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domidc commented

Encountered also this problem. Will there be a possibilty to update roles from one site to another in the future?

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domidc commented

Just to contribute a solution. I use a hook update to delete the old roles. In all deploy scenarios I allways include a module to write hook updates in to clean up these kind of little shortcommings.

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hefox commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Yea, rolename == machine name so changing the rolename is not possible :/