MODx Revo: Existing chunks overwritten without warning?

Today I installed a MODx Revolution Extra which also comes with a Chunk. This Chunk had exactly the same name as a Chunk which I created before.

To my surprise my chunk was overwritten (or at least disappeared) without any warning by the installer of the Extra. Is this a normal behavior or a bug of the installer?

I'm using MODx Revo 2.2.0-pl2

It would have to be using an update query of some sort, which would be natural if the extra is going to be able to "update" itself later. [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 14 years, 8 months ago.]

That's not unexpected. It depends on whether the xPDOTransport::UPDATE_OBJECT variable is set to true or not in the transport package. I wouldn't be surprised if packages created with PackMan are set that way.

Most extras use fairly specific names for the chunks. I usually prefix my own chunk names with 'My" to make them easier to identify and prevent what happened to you.

What was the package (hoping it was not one of mine)?


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