Disaster with pip install module... -> upgraded my whole installation to 3.8 without confirmation

[Ossi Viljakainen]

Hi guys, 

I made a disaster with pip install when I treid to install a new module...

I was stupid and I did not take backup, taking it for granted that I have the backup from last night. So I went ahead, and did pip install <modulename>. I did not realize I have to be careful and specify the version when installing a package. As soon as it was running, I realized that hell got loose  – without asking for confirmation pip upgraded the whole thing to 3.8 and started uninstalling the whole system:

 Found existing installation: trytond-sale 3.0.0

    Uninstalling trytond-sale:

      Successfully uninstalled trytond-sale

  Running setup.py install for trytond-sale

    

  Found existing installation: trytond-currency 3.0.0

    Uninstalling trytond-currency:

      Successfully uninstalled trytond-currency

  Running setup.py install for trytond-currency

  

As soon as I realized, I tried downgraded it back by doing "sudo pip install trytond==3.0.0" 

But after downgrading back to 3.0, I can't get trytond started. I think it completely f*ed up my installation. So now when I try to start tryrond I'm getting: 

Traceback (most recent call last): 

  File "/usr/local/bin/trytond", line 13, in <module> 

    import trytond 

ImportError: No module named trytond 

So then went to my backup disk, to realize that last backup had run couple of months back, due to error in script.

Anyhow, I hope the DB is intact, and I have all the files backed up since there was the last change few months back.

So this piece is here just for me to vent out my shock & frustration, and for all you as a yet another reminder to ensure you have the backups before messing up with anything.

[Cédric Krier]

On 2015-12-05 07:30, Ossi Viljakainen wrote:
> I made a disaster with pip install when I treid to install a new module...

It was discussed here:
http://www.tryton.org/~irclog/2015-12-05.log.html#t2015-12-05%2014:10

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