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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman DOT andrew AT epamail DOT epa DOT gov>
Subject: Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:33:06 -0400
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> I am _not_ the maintainer

I'm the Cygwin maintainer for Unison.

> but 2.9.1 is the only version I have that
> will talk to a current development machine -- a current debian machine too.

My Debian host has

$ apt-cache policy unison
 unison:
  Installed: 2.13.16-6
  Candidate: 2.13.16-6
  Version table:
 *** 2.13.16-6 0
        990 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
        300 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.13.16-5 0
        200 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages

So I'm guessing that your development server is still using a locally
installed copy from a long while back, and the sysadmins haven't updated.
Or, they may have a newer version such as 2.13 installed too, and you only
need to change which version your client talks to, e.g.

unison -servercmd /usr/bin/unison-2.13.16

or some such.

which -a unison
ls /usr/{,local/}bin/unison*

might provide some useful information here.

> Maybe we should release 2.27 as an ahead package -- or a seperate one
> that RENAMES the old ones to 'unison-versionname' so that when the newer
> version is used to try and talk to the old one, the side the user is on
> will fall back to the old version...

No need to rename any current versions, since they're already named by their
version numbers:

$ cd /usr/bin
$ ls -o unison*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 aschulma  956416 Aug 25  2005 unison-2.10.2.exe*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 aschulma  962560 Aug 25  2005 unison-2.12.0.exe*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 aschulma  974336 Aug 25  2005 unison-2.13.exe*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 aschulma  991232 Aug 25  2005 unison-2.17.exe*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 aschulma  889344 Aug 25  2005 unison-2.9.1.exe*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 aschulma  907264 Aug 25  2005 unison-2.9.20.exe*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 aschulma      28 Mar  1 09:44 unison.exe ->
/etc/alternatives/unison.exe*

Andrew.


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