How about nothing involving find or rm at all? Our build system should be able 
to handle this.

On 9 Mar 2010, at 16:18, Paul Davis wrote:

> Maybe a command more like this?
> 
> find /usr/local/lib/ -name "couchdb" | xargs -n 1 rm -rf
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> 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
>>> --
>>> 
>> 
>> 

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