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Re: Remaining setup bug

Robert Collins wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:01, Max Bowsher wrote:

>2.299 allows you to select a version that you don't have on disc, and then
>proceeds to remove your current version, and replace it with nothing, with
>no error, either. (This is install from local directory mode.)


Max, I need a how-to-reproduce at a minimum, I've 191 file versions on
disk to choose between - give me a hand here.
Sorry.

setup-HEAD (2.301, now ;-) )

Run. Install from Local directory mode.
Choose a package version that is *not* in your local cache dir.
(Personally, I don't keep [prev] packages past a few days.)

Setup uninstalls it, and announces 'Uninstalls complete.' Not what the user intended.

Max.

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