Re: [Ekiga-list] destructive Ekiga Win-XP un-install

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 05/05/10 20:53, michel memeteau wrote:
> 2010/5/5 Eugen Dedu<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>
>
> > On 14/02/10 14:57, michel memeteau wrote:
> >
> > > if for some reason the installer decide that MyDocs is the default install
> > > dir instead of progfiles/ekiga , it will install there and uninstaller
> > > will
> > > erase the INSTALDIR content and thus mydocs.
> > > I guess it can have something to do with user rights as if progfiles is
> > > not
> > > writable, i might try Mydocs. I've seen this behaviour before.
> > >
> > > Well...  I have just had it too...
> > I use a computer of my school.  echo %programfiles% shows C:\Program Files.
> >   I tried to create a directory inside, I do not have the right to do it.
> >   When I start ekiga-setup, it proposes me to install in C:\Docs and
> > Settings\ededu/Ekiga.  I have not yet completed the install process.
>
>
>
> "Good news " ! Eugen. I don't think it's that weird that the NSIS process
> would detect that the user does not have any rights under XP  and thus
> propose a D&S/username/Ekiga install dir.
>
> I even think that the firefox installer do this to. So IMO it's not a bug to
> correct.
>
> The main bug is that the uninstaller remove D&S/username whole folder which
> means the regedit uninstall key is not correctly read.

Here is the progress so far:
- as shown at http://www.flickr.com/photos/34403391 N07/4356542596/, the 
installer did not install ekiga in a new directory (look at ekiga, help, 
locale, icons directories, which belong to ekiga), but directly in 
MyDocuments, where other files reside
- I think that yesterday everything was ok for me anyway, since it 
proposed a new directory (ending in Ekiga)
- the NSIS script in ekiga uses during uninstall (cf. 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/tree/win32/nsisinstaller/ekiga.nsi?h=gnome-2-26):
    Delete /REBOOTOK "$INSTDIR\*.*"
    RMDir /r /REBOOTOK "$INSTDIR"
which of course removes the whole installation directory (by the way, 
aren't both these commands identical??)  This is unsafe anyway, as shown 
at the end of the section 
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.9.1.8

I try to understand now:
- why the installer have not proposed a new directory (ending in 
\Ekiga).  Reporter, have you installed it in MyDocs or in MyDocs\Ekiga? 
 Have you modified the directory it proposed you or not?
- how to avoid delete *\*, since by the way the uninstallation might 
work even if the user himself chooses an already existing and non empty 
directory

--
Eugen