Unless additional files have been added to the source tree that are installed,
then yes, absolutely. I stand by my assertion that as the section included no
explanation with it, and concluded in the un-caveat-ed advice to blow away
everything on your system, I had severe doubts about the reliability of the
text.
On 9 Mar 2010, at 16:54, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
> In addition, would a r12345 source tree know how to `make uninstall` a r12344
> install tree? (since the rev is part of the directories in question). If not,
> `make uninstall` doesn't handle this case.
>
> Cheers
> Jan
> --
>
>
> On 9 Mar 2010, at 08:49, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>
>> Can you then please update the information instead of deleting it? :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jan
>> --
>> On 9 Mar 2010, at 08:07, Noah Slater wrote:
>>
>>> It looks wrong. If people want to uninstall CouchDB, they should use the
>>> "uninstall" target with make. Instructions asking them to DELETE everything
>>> are very irresponsible. Unless the user thinks hard about that that command
>>> is about to do, they will loose all the data in their databases.
>>>
>>> On 9 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Noah,
>>>>
>>>> On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:17, Apache Wiki wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> - == invalid UTF-8 JSON ==
>>>>> -
>>>>> - When upgrading from old versions of CouchDB, it is best to really get
>>>>> rid of everything old. If you get strange errors and all but the
>>>>> simplest actions appear to be broken, and especially if you are seeing
>>>>> {"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"} type of errors in
>>>>> Futon, then you should try something like the following:
>>>>> -
>>>>> - {{{
>>>>> - find /usr/local -name \*couch* | xargs rm -rf
>>>>> - make && sudo make install
>>>>> - }}}
>>>>> -
>>>>> - This was discussed on 13 Dec 2009 on the users mailing list, and the
>>>>> resolution is discussed
>>>>> -
>>>>> [[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%[email protected]%3e|here]]
>>>>> and
>>>>> -
>>>>> [[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%[email protected]%3e|here]]
>>>>> -
>>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> what's wrong with this information? I still see people running into the
>>>> issue.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Jan
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
