Re: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the Unattended installation is ended?

2004-01-18 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:41PM -, Steven D. Pretlove wrote:
  I do not understand why anybody would want this.  Having Perl is no 
  different than having Visual Basic, and nobody asks about uninstalling
  THAT.  But you are the third person to ask, so...

I'm installing tightly controlled, hardened, internet-facing servers.
I have to justify every bit that goes on the disk, especially third-party
software.  VB is already a part of the OS.  It would be very nice for
me to be able to uninstall ActivePerl as the last step.

- Ryan


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RE: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the Unattended installation is ended?

2004-01-15 Thread Steven D. Pretlove
I added the following line(s) in base.bat

::Cleanup Perl
todo.pl rmdir \%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\ActiveState
ActivePerl 5.8\ /s /q

Steve
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That might be enough for me ... do you have such batch file handy?

Thanks
Oriol de los Santos

 -Original Message-
 From: Steven D. Pretlove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:16 PM
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 Subject: RE: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the 
 Unattended instalation is ended?
 
 
 Personally I don't see the need either...
 
 What we do is delete the entry in the Start Menu by simple having a 
 batch file clean them up.
 
 I can see the need for the users not knowing an extra piece
 of software
 is there, but not to remove it...
 
 
 Steve
 (01908) 580623
  
 
 
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 Sent: 15 January 2004 14:48
 To: DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1)
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 Subject: Re: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the 
 Unattended instalation is ended?
 
 
 DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:
 
  If so, when should it be uninstalled in order to have
 everithing else
  work?
 
 I do not understand why anybody would want this.  Having Perl is no 
 different than having Visual Basic, and nobody asks about uninstalling

 THAT.  But you are the third person to ask, so...
 
 It may be tricky.  Everything in Unattended, including the code which 
 cleans up the registry and reboots at the very end, is written in 
 Perl. I do not know what will happen if you try to uninstall Perl
 from within
 a Perl script.  Maybe it will just work.
 
 You can use msiexec /x to uninstall the package.  The first thing I 
 would try is putting it just before the final .reboot directive in the

 initial todo.txt file.  If that doesn't work, then we have a problem.
 
 I am not particularly inclined to work on this, although I will accept

 patches if they are clean.
 
  - Pat
 
 
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