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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:06:23 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dan Pelleg <dpelleg+unison@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc:        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:  <20021004170623.GA4170@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <15773.51499.543919.679266@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:00:27PM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> Kris Kennaway writes:
>  > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:25:42PM +0200, Henri Dubois-Ferriere wrote:
>  > > Hello,=20
>  > >=20
>  > > I noticed  a slight inconstistency : the unison version obtained whe=
n=20
>  > > querying the freebsd ports database=20
>  > > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi) is given as 2.9.1, whereas th=
e=20
>  > > sources downloaded are actually 2.9.20.=20
>  >=20
>  > I show 2.9.20 since I committed the new INDEX the other day.
>  >=20
>  > > More importantly, I was surprised that the 'official' port would be =
2.9.20=20
>  > > which is still the beta version of unison. Is this intentional?=20
>  >=20
>  > You'd have to ask the maintainer, but I assume it is.
>  >=20
>=20
> It is; 2.9.1 was marked forbidden by ru due do a data-corruption bug (whi=
ch
> he experienced and reported to the dev list, btw). He also verified that
> 2.9.20 fixes the problem.
>=20
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 wou=
ld
> not be productive.
>=20
Yes, their primary focus now is another slightly-unison-related project,
sorry, I don't recall the details.


Cheers,
--=20
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