Opened 15 years ago
#121 new defect
Uninstalling applications can destroy un-associated user data
Reported by: | adehnert | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
Component: | autoinstallers | Keywords: | |
Cc: |
Description
If I have a database with user data that is unassociated with an autoinstall of the same name, uninstalling the autoinstalled app will still delete the database. In particular, if you install something like phpical and separately create a database, both with the same name (say, "test"), you'll lose the database at the same time you remove the autoinstall. This seems poor, especially there's no reason to think that that database name was "reserved".
adehnert@novgorod web_scripts [06:15] $ scripts-remove Welcome to the scripts.mit.edu uninstaller. This program will help you cleanly remove software that you have auto-installed. Are you removing an installation from: 1. Your personal Athena account 2. A locker that you control (a club, a course, etc.) If you do not understand this question, you should answer 1. Please enter either 1 or 2: 1 When you installed the software, you chose a URL that starts with http://scripts.mit.edu/~adehnert/. Please enter the full URL where this software was installed. (This should correspond to a directory in /mit/adehnert/web_scripts/.) URL: http://scripts.mit.edu/~adehnert/test You have a MySQL account but you do not have a .my.cnf file. If you do not remember your MySQL account password, you can change it at http://sql.mit.edu using MIT certificates. Please type your MySQL password and press [enter]: OK. Continuing with the uninstaller... Removing files. Please wait... (This may take several seconds for large software.) The directory /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/d/adehnert/web_scripts/test was successfully removed. A one-day-old backup of the installation is available from /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/d/adehnert/OldFiles/web_scripts/test. The database adehnert+test was successfully removed.
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