Re: [Evolution-hackers] "Clean" installing 1.5.x?

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 20:38, Not Zed wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 10:58 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> 
> > This actually belongs on the "evolution" list, not "evolution-hackers".
> > 
> > Anyway, no, deleting /apps/evolution from gconf is not safe if you use
> > 1.4.x.
> > 
> > What you can do, is run evolution-1.5 --force-migrate. However, be VERY
> > WARNED, that this will remove the ~/.evolution directory (the 1.5
> > directory), as well as reset some gconf keys that only affect 1.5, and
> > then re-migrate from 1.4.
> > </use risk="own">
> 
> FWIW this doesn't seme to work too well for me.
> 
> Force migrade WONT remove ~/.evolution thankfully ... (or should hope it
> doesn't).

It will do this.

> The most reliable way:
> 
>  evolution-1.5 --force-shutdown
>  rm -rf ~/.evolution yourself
>  gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/evolution/version --value 1.4.0

The code does both of the above two lines.

>  evolution-1.5

This sequence will not re-import calendars, addressbooks and tasks
properly.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
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