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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:19 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> 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.

Ugh, thats a stupid idea.  I'm glad it didn'tw when i ran it, or i'd
have lost 6 months of email.  It should definitely confirm before wiping
out all your data.

> > 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.

Not very bloody useful then is it!