[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1047) Delete old scripts before installing new ones

[Robin Sommer (JIRA)]

    [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1047?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14305#comment-14305 ] 

Robin Sommer commented on BIT-1047:
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I prefer to defer merging topic/jsiwek/remove-old-installed-scripts
for the next development cycle.

For 2.2, let's just put a note into NEWS pointing out what to change.
A nicer error message would be nice obviously, but that's also
something for later at this time.



> Delete old scripts before installing new ones
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1047
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1047
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Bro
>            Reporter: Robin Sommer
>             Fix For: 2.2
>
>
> People keep having problems when they install a new Bro version 
> over the installation of an old one because scripts that have disappeared in the new version will keep sticking around from the previous installation. 
> We should simply remove the old scripts/base and scripts/policy before installing anything new. People aren't supposed to edit in there so that should be safe.



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