From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 4 10: 7:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C19437B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079E643E6A for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g94H6NS04711; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:06:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:06:23 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Dan Pelleg Cc: Kris Kennaway , Henri DF , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: unison-2.9.1 Message-ID: <20021004170623.GA4170@sunbay.com> References: <20021004163654.GG24842@xor.obsecurity.org> <15773.51499.543919.679266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15773.51499.543919.679266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9ncqPUkv4P6juNwoRAtzyAJ9HRPLpA14XPyQ3VPzh+uwtQNDhVwCeI6nR aZAab3gPSlu1r6asWDG2vcA= =Rev/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message