Hi Nyall, On Wed, 28. Feb 2018 at 09:17:43 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote: > Hi all, (but specifically Jürgen!) > > I'm wondering if the existing content of the apps\qgis folder is > removed before a new QGIS version is install via osgeo4w?
The files installed by the previous package are removed and the package preremove script is run. > This report leads me to believe I'm not seeing an isolated issue: > https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/272679/gdaltools-core-plugin-missing-metadata-file/272682#272682 > Does osgeo4w have support for preinstall scripts which we could use to > wipe the python/plugins folder prior to an install? postinstall, see ms-windows/osgeo4w/postinstall-desktop.bat, which removes old pyc. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Aurich HRB 100827 _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
