[Bug]: `everything-alpha` does not check properly for the existence of the Everything service

[ymeine]

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Package Name

everything-alpha

Expected/Current Behaviour

The pre_uninstall script does not check properly whether an Everything service exists or not.

First of all, the name of the service, at least on my side, is not the right one, it’s Everything (1.5a).

Second, the code $(Get-Service -Name Everything -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Status -ne 'Stopped' will actually be $true also when there is no service, since $(Get-Service -Name Everything -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Status returns $nil in that case, and indeed it is not equal to 'Stopped'.

Steps to Reproduce

When there is an update for everything-alpha, try updating and see it fail.

Possible Solution

extras/everything already works better in that case, it checks beforehand if the service actually exists, and if it uses the scoop installed Everything instance. However, I’m not really too fan on using an external tool when PowerShell already provides the functionality, and on performing a string match on a whole unformatted output.

Here’s how it could be fixed directly in PowerShell:

• $service = Get-Service -Name Everything* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue, with the * added it will work for any variant of the service name, including with a version specifier like in my case
• $service.BinaryPathName -match $dir.Replace('\\', '\\\\'), to reuse the logic seen for extras/everything, but while keeping on using what PowerShell provides. Not that this will be $true only if the service exists and corresponds to that installation, so it will take into account the inexistence of the service this time
• $service.Status -ne 'Stopped', like before

I would suggest replicating this logic to every other Everything package in scoop buckets, since it seems more robust (unless I missed something important).

Of course, now there can be other issues during update if the service is actually present: #1337

Here’s the git diff of the proposed solution:

     "pre_uninstall": [
         "Stop-Process -Name 'everything' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue",
-        "if ($(Get-Service -Name Everything -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Status -ne 'Stopped') {",
+        "$service = Get-Service -Name Everything* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue",
+        "if ($service.BinaryPathName -match $dir.Replace('\\', '\\\\')) {",
+        "    if ($service.Status -ne 'Stopped') {",
         "        if (!(is_admin)) { error 'Admin rights are required to stop Everything service'; break }",
         "        Stop-Service -Name 'Everything' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null",
         "    }",
-        "if ((Get-Service -Name Everything -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -and ($cmd -eq 'uninstall')) {",
+        "    if ($cmd -eq 'uninstall') {",
         "        if (!(is_admin)) { error 'Admin rights are required to remove Everything service'; break }",
         "        sc.exe delete 'Everything'",
         "    }",
+        "}",
         "if ($cmd -eq 'uninstall') { reg import \"$dir\\uninstall-context.reg\" }",
         "Get-ChildItem \"$dir\\*\" -Include 'Bookmarks*.csv', 'Everything.lng', 'Everything*.db', 'Everything*.ini', 'Filters*.csv', 'Plugins*.ini', 'Run History*.csv', 'Search History*.csv' | Copy-Item -Destination \"$persist_dir\" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force"
     ],

Scoop and Buckets Version

I trimmed down the output to keep only the relevant buckets:

Current Scoop version:
859d1db5 (HEAD -> master, tag: v0.5.2, origin/master, origin/HEAD) chore(release): Bump to version 0.5.2 (#6080)

'main' bucket:
3215c64d5 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) sqruff: Update to version 0.25.20

'extras' bucket:
dcf7ba3ee4 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) vroid-studio: Update to version 2.1.5

'versions' bucket:
8c7301bb6 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) vscode-insiders: Update to version 1.99.0-1743051838875

Scoop Config

last_update   : 3/27/2025 10:44:40 AM
use_lessmsi   : True
aria2-enabled : False
scoop_branch  : master
scoop_repo    : https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop

PowerShell Version

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.5.0
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.5.0
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Additional Softwares

N/A

[HUMORCE]

Please make a PR for this.

[ymeine]

I opened PR #2279, which fixes this issue and a bit more (remains consistent with the topic).

[Kas-tle]

FYI for those who got stuck with this and now can't uninstall it due to lack of admin rights, you can manually modify manifest.json in %userprofile%\scoop\apps\everything-alpha\current\manifest.json with the above changes to allow scoop to uninstall the app.