226370 - Deleted too much when cleaning out old version on overwrite install

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 69153

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Phillip]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.5 for Linux (Sorry, I don't have access to the entire descriptor now)

I was trying to replace the version of Mozilla that came with RedHat 8.0. 
RedHat puts Mozilla in /usr/bin/.  I went to install the new version in /usr/bin
(as root), and was told I already had a copy of Mozilla there.  It asked if I'd
like to remove the old version prior to installing the new version.  I said yes.

The installer removed ALL of my executable files from /usr/bin, necessitating a
complete rebuild of my Linux system.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the installer
2. Select /usr/bin as the destination
3. Watch as you are no longer able to do anything, because you have no system
commands available.

Actual Results:  
I couldn't do much of anything on my system, as many OS commands (cp, etc.) were
gone.

Expected Results:  
Only removed mozilla-specific executables

Comment 1

[Nicholas Allen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69153 ***