[Installer] Uninstaller deletes only the installed payload, never the whole tree (#7472)

Co-authored-by: Lukas Brübach <Bruebach.Lukas@bdosecurity.de>
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BruebachL
2026-10-11 15:34:49 +02:00
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@@ -304,10 +304,11 @@ SetShellVarContext all
; _?=$INSTDIR keeps the old uninstaller running in place. An NSIS uninstaller
; normally copies itself to %TEMP% and runs from there so that it can delete its
; own directory, and the process we started exits at once. ExecWait then returns
; before the uninstall has run, and the temp copy's "RMDir /r $INSTDIR" executes
; while the section below is still writing the new payload. _?= disables the copy
; and makes ExecWait block until the uninstall finishes. It must be the last
; argument and must not be quoted, even when the path contains spaces.
; before the uninstall has run, and the temp copy keeps deleting files - from
; 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 on disk a blanket "RMDir /r $INSTDIR" - while the section
; below is still writing the new payload. _?= disables the copy and makes
; ExecWait block until the uninstall finishes. It must be the last argument
; and must not be quoted, even when the path contains spaces.
;
; --- 32-bit uninstall ---
SetRegView 32
@@ -1107,9 +1108,14 @@ ${AndIf} ${FileExists} "$INSTDIR\portable.dat"
; upgrade portable mode
!insertmacro CockLog "section: portable upgrade purge"
!insertmacro CockLogListing "before-portable-purge" "*.dll"
; plugins and translations are payload and are rewritten by the payload
; below, so removing them here is safe. sounds and themes are payload
; too - the default packs are rewritten below as well - but a portable
; user's custom sounds and themes live in exactly those folders, so a
; recursive purge here would delete user content along with the defaults.
; Stale default files from an older release are overwritten or replaced
; by the payload, never by a purge.
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\plugins"
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\sounds"
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\themes"
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\translations"
Delete "$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe"
Delete "$INSTDIR\cockatrice.exe"
@@ -1263,16 +1269,32 @@ Section "un.Application" UnSecApplication
SetShellVarContext all
StrCpy $R1 0
; Record whether this was a portable install before the directory (and the
; portable.dat marker inside it) is removed below.
; Record whether this was a portable install before portable.dat is
; removed below.
IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\portable.dat" 0 +2
StrCpy $R1 1
; Remove the entire application directory so any file that is not part of
; the installed payload (e.g. build-tree artifacts such as *.dir folders,
; *_autogen and *.tlog files from a build) cannot survive between an
; uninstall and a fresh reinstall.
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR"
; Remove only what the installer wrote. The two lists below are generated
; by CPack from the staged install tree: one Delete per installed file and
; one non-recursive RMDir per installed directory, children first.
; Anything the user put in $INSTDIR - decks, pictures, portable data
; folders - is not on those lists and survives, and $INSTDIR itself is
; only removed when nothing else is left in it. An earlier version of this
; section ran a blanket "RMDir /r $INSTDIR" to keep build-tree artifacts
; out of a fresh reinstall; that also deleted user decks whenever a user
; had pointed their data folders into the install directory, so payload
; purity may never be bought at that price again.
@CPACK_NSIS_DELETE_FILES@
@CPACK_NSIS_DELETE_DIRECTORIES@
; Written by the installer itself, so absent from the staged payload
; above; qdebug.txt is app-generated log output next to the executables.
Delete "$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe"
Delete "$INSTDIR\portable.dat"
Delete "$INSTDIR\qdebug.txt"
; Succeeds only when no foreign files remain.
RMDir "$INSTDIR"
RMDir /r "$SMPROGRAMS\Cockatrice"