[tex-live] I am very angry now.

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Yue, hi Siep,

thanks a big lot, although, I must honestly say, I am completely
surprised. Maybe you Siep can understand that ...

The funny thing is that I don't have any idea what has happened:

The scripts:
---- unshort.bat ---
rmdir /s /q "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TeX Live 2008" 2>nul
del "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\PS_View.lnk" 2>nul
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looks harmless

---- uninst.bat -------
@echo off
rem This should not be necessary, but sometimes it is:
path C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32;%path%
set PERL5LIB=
"C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\tlpkg\tlperl\bin\perl.exe" "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\texmf\scripts\texlive\uninstall-win32.pl"
call "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\tlpkg\installer\unshort.bat"
copy "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\tlpkg\installer\uninst2.bat" "%TEMP%"
rem pause
"%TEMP%\uninst2.bat"
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also looks quite straight forward, the uninstall-win32.pl only pops up
the window asking for "really uninstall". So nothing strange here.

Now the only interesing one:
------- uninst2.bat -----------
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\texmf-dist"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\texmf-doc"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\texmf"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\readme.html"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\tlpkg"
del /s /q "\README.*"
del /s /q "\LICENSE.*"
del /q "\index.html"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\texmf-var"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\texmf-config"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\temp"
rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\tlpkg"
del "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\install-tl.log"
del "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\release-texlive.txt"
set test=
for %%f in ("C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\*.*") do @set test=nonempty
if x%test%==x rd "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008"
@echo Done uninstalling TeXLive.
rem @pause
del %0
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This also does not look problematic, but then, it looks like there is
something fishy, because the
	del /s /q "\README.*"
should have some start with "C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\README.*"

That is especially strange since the install-tl code in TLWinGoo does
not look fishy here, it prints:
....
rmdir /s /q \"$td\\bin\"
rmdir /s /q \"$td\\tlpkg\"
del /q \"$td\\README.*\"
del /q \"$td\\LICENSE.*\"
del \"$td\\index.html\"
....
where the $td expands to the TEXDIR, ie c:\Program Files\texlive\2008.
And it really does expand that in the lines above the README and below,
but not in the two lines in between. Very strange.

But still, that does not explain why it tried to remove all files.


SIEP, or ANYONE with W32 Experience?!?!?! Do you have ANY??? Idea???

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining at debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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