Re: [Exist-development] 2.0RC2 installation failed on OS X 10.8

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

That sounds like the culprit, Wolfgang.  Thank you!

Joe

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Wolfgang Meier <wol...@ex...> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>> Yes, that was the case - I had tried to install 2.0RC2 over 2.0RC(1).
>> Deleting it then installing RC2 succeeded. Odd that the previous
>> version interfered with installing the new version, but not a big deal
>
> When I searched for the error message, the first hit indicated an issue if you install a package created with izpack 5 over an older installation of izpack 4:
>
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/IZPACK-705
>
> I thus assumed you may have hit a similar problem because RC1 was build with izpack 5 whereas we moved back to izpack 4 for RC2 (due to the failing console mode support).
>> - although when I see warnings like, "Are you sure you want to install
>> in /Applications/eXist-db? It will overwrite the data in that
>> directory!" I assumed the installer would first wipe that directory,
>> no?
>
> It does not wipe the directory but just overwrites files. We recommend to never install over a previous installation. I'll see if we can change the warning message to be more clear about this.
>
> Wolfgang