[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 853 remove upgrade state when uninstalling

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri Aug 26 12:02:28 UTC 2011


Adam Young wrote:
> On 08/24/2011 11:38 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> The upgrade process makes saves some information in the IPA sysrestore
>> state. If any of this state remains after an uninstall then you will
>> get an error during re-install. Theoretically all this state should be
>> removed as part of the upgrade process but on the outside chance, lets
>> remove the state at uninstall to prevent problems.
>>
>> I've had just one report of this, it may have been due to a blown
>> upgrade, I'm not sure. I've been unable to reproduce it but at worst
>> this is a noop and at best allows easy re-installation.
>>
>> This requires patch 852.
>>
>> rob
>>
>>
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>
> So my latest patch changes .etc.httpd/nss.conf. Is this an appropriate
> approach for that file as well?

No, we back up the entire file. It should get restored to its previous 
state on uninstall.

rob




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