MySQL Bugs: #27847: agent uninstall incomplete on HP (the uninstall file remains on the system)

Bug #27847	agent uninstall incomplete on HP (the uninstall file remains on the system)
Submitted:	16 Apr 2007 11:30	Modified:	30 Jul 2009 10:22
Reporter:	Carsten Segieth	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Installing	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	1.x, 2.0, 2.1	OS:	HP/UX
Assigned to:	MC Brown	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	mer 121, platforms, uninstall

Description:
On HPUX (hpux11.00, hpux11.11, hpux11.23) the uninstall file remains on the system, regardless whether the uninstall is called in text or in unattended mode:

mysqldev@hp3750:/users/csegieth/mysql/network/agent/1.1.1.5099/hpux11.00-hppa2.0-64bit/hp3750> ll
total 6480
drwxrwxrwx   2 mysqldev   users         4096 Apr 16 13:01 etc
drwxrwxrwx   2 mysqldev   users         4096 Apr 13 16:08 log
-rwxrw-rw-   1 mysqldev   users      3305021 Apr 13 16:07 uninstall

How to repeat:
install and uninstall the agent on a HP machine (tested as simple user)

Suggested fix:
- as on other systems, remove also the 'uninstall' binary at end of uninstall

This one is tricky because unlike in Linux, it is not possible to delete a file while it is still in use. We will look into alternate ways of fixing this (on Windows there are workarounds) but it may take a while

Added to "Known Issues".

verified also in 2.1.0.1059 for the new HP/UX 11.31 installer

Heidi Bergh-Hoff writes: 
This needs further investigation by Bitrock

Workaround is to manually delete the uninstall executable file after uninstalling.

The latest build installers have been copied to the Bitrock ftp directory as requested.

Andy Bang writes: 
At Bug Council we decided that we'll simply document the workaround (manually deleting the uninstall executable after uninstalling).

Martin MC Brown writes: 
I've added a note to the uninstall section