Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 19:12:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Henri Dubois-Ferriere <henridf@lcavsun1.epfl.ch> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dan Pelleg <dpelleg+unison@cs.cmu.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Henri DF <henri.dubois-ferriere@epfl.ch>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: unison-2.9.1 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210041908510.12001-100000@lcmpc4.epfl.ch> In-Reply-To: <20021004170623.GA4170@sunbay.com>
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> > > > More importantly, I was surprised that the 'official' port would be 2.9.20 > > > > which is still the beta version of unison. Is this intentional? > > > > > > You'd have to ask the maintainer, but I assume it is. > > > > > > > It is; 2.9.1 was marked forbidden by ru due do a data-corruption bug (which > > he experienced and reported to the dev list, btw). He also verified that > > 2.9.20 fixes the problem. > > > Well, I even suggested the fix, and they implemented it rather quickly. > I use unison in production, and have not so far seen any problems since > this critical bug was fixed. I use 2.9.20 now to synchronize 30G of > different type of data between 5 machines around the world, concurrently. > > > Since the unison project seems to have lost manpower (the UPenn students > > having graduated and the project lead turning his attention to other > > problems), my impression was that waiting for the next stable release would > > not be productive. > > All makes sense. My first impression on 2.9.20 was poor because of a (trivial) bug when i upgraded my linux machines to it, but i didn't realize you basically had only the choice between a beta and going back to a pre 2.9 release. So I guess that there is not 'official' policy on putting out betas in ports ? Thanks Henri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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