Uninstall script?

[pirog]

Any thoughts to packaging in or providing an uninstall script?

[pirog]

Based on a crude overview these are some of the things that an uninstall could/would theoretically do

1. boot2docker destroy
2. Uninstall VirtualBox (VB dmg has a nice uninstall.tool)
3. Remove Boot2Docker app
4. Remove boot2docker/docker binaries
5. Remve ~/.boot2docker

Does the pkg install things other places that i am missing here?

[pirog]

I just added a basic uninstaller to the kalastack-docker project which may be useful for this too. Let me know if you want me to submit a PR and where to put it and i will do so: https://github.com/kalamuna/kalastack-docker/commit/c9bbaf5a26bbf9c8fba3003a512a18b90b4fd61d

[SvenDowideit]

/usr/local/share/boot2docker/boot2docker.iso (well, get rid of the dir, i'm thinking of throwing more in there over time :))

Does this mean that OSX installers don't have a gui uninstaller? mmmm, i wonder if I should just write an uninstall apple-script GUI?

[pirog]

I don't think GUI uninstallers are very common in OSX. Generally you just trash the .app and call it a day. That said, more complicated apps a la vagrant and virtualbox ship ship with a uninstall.tool with their DMGs. The tool is usually just an executable bash script which is the example we are following for now on the kalastack-docker project.

Writing a simple apple script based uninstaller gui could certainly work as well :)

[SvenDowideit]

in that case, if you beat me to a PR (not hard these days) YAY ;)

[pirog]

I've got time to work on these things this week so i'll try to throw something up!

[pirog]

One thing to also consider here is usually an uninstall.tool script gets packaged into a dmg. It looks like our release here is a .pkg so we would have to rejig whatever we are doing for packaging to build a dmg that includes the uninstall.tool.

We could also just leave the script in the repo and note its usage in documentation.

[SvenDowideit]

I'd just toss it into /usr/local/bin/boot2docker-uninstall - the .pkg already contains multiple files :)

[pirog]

sounds good! haven't had time to do this yet but am still game.

[Caf]

I need to uninstall it from one of my Mac, can't wait to try it. ;)

[psykzz]

For future

boot2docker stop
boot2docker delete
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/boot2docker
rm -rf ~/.boot2docker
rm -rf /usr/local/share/boot2docker

[SvenDowideit]

and

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/docker

[huangsam]

To summarize:

#!/bin/bash

# Stop boot2docker processes
boot2docker stop
boot2docker delete

# Remove boot2docker executable
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/boot2docker

# Remove boot2docker ISO and socket files
rm -rf ~/.boot2docker
rm -rf /usr/local/share/boot2docker

# Remove Docker executable
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/docker

I recall you were interested in a pull request @SvenDowideit. Where would you like this artifact be placed? I'm wondering if it should be a curl-able script.

[SvenDowideit]

i'd put it into the osx installer...

[therealmarv]

Thanks @huangsam ! This bothered me so much (I really hate pkg without uninstallers) I've even written a blog post about this issue (before discovering it here). Hope this gets accepted soon!

[karantir]

And keys:

rm -rf ~/.ssh/id_boot2docker*

[huangsam]

@karantir that was already covered in uninstall.sh