One way to avoid this whole problem would be to adopt an everything in code process (either through features or leaning heavily on the installation api module and bulk export modules).<div><br></div><div>That way, updates are all like module updates.</div>

<div><br></div><div>See <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; "><a href="http://nuvole.org/blog/2010/aug/24/features-based-development-workflow" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(163, 27, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">http://nuvole.org/blog/2010/aug/24/features-based-development-workflow</a></span></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div>The technique works whether you use features or not.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Victor Kane</div><div><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a></div><div><a href="http://drupal.org/project/pft">http://drupal.org/project/pft</a></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:21 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jeff@ayendesigns.com">jeff@ayendesigns.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">



  
    
  
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    Nancy, that will get rid of the node type entry, but not the cck
    content-field- and content-type tables. I should delete those, or is
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