uninstall/upgrade?
Aaron Bentley
aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Wed Dec 19 15:27:31 GMT 2007
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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:51:33AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
>>> Thanks, that's what other people suggested, too, but as said, I opted
>>> to remove the old installation (once I figured out where it was) before
>>> I tried that, in order to avoid having stale files messing up the new
>>> system.
>> What DO people do about this? The lack of an uninstall
>> has always concerned me too.
>
>
>> Matt
>> PS Same goes for 'make install' but I digress.
>
> a) Bazaar itself installs fairly cleanly and only puts things into 2
> directories. /usr/bin/bzr, and /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib
>
> I realize other things may stick things in more places.
>
> b) People use package managers like "apt/deb" or "yum/rpm" which track exactly
> what files were installed and what should be removed.
c) Some people run from a branch of the source; "bzr pull && bzr
clean-tree --ignored" will blow away any old versions of files,
including .pycs
Aaron
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