Re: potential problem - should it be fixed?
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Sun, 05 Oct 2003 04:56:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: potential problem - should it be fixed? | ||
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Sunday, October 5, 2003, 5:04:03 AM, Greg Beaver wrote:
> Hi,
> It occurred to me today that this sequence of events would leave
> orphaned files on the hard disk:
> $ pear config-set data_dir /path/to/first
> $ pear install phpDocumentor
> install OK
> $ pear config-set data_dir /some/other/path
> $ pear uninstall phpDocumentor
> Although unlikely in the past, if we recommend that people switch the
> data directory to a subdirectory of a webserver, any previously
> installed data will be orphaned in the old location.
This won't ocurr, the installer remembers where each file was
installed. That has nothing to do with changing settings. See the
extra attrib ['installed_as'] in .reg files if you're curious.
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Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com