Re: unison compatibility in stretch

From	Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: unison compatibility in stretch
Date	2017-12-13 14:40 +0100
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On Wednesday, 13 Dec 2017 at 12:49, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

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> The server is running Jessie, the repository does not contain 2.48.
> There appears to be no backport.
> The client is running Stretch. Its repository does not contain anything
> other than 2.48.
>
>>From what I can see froom googling, there is an incompatibility in one
> of the underlying libraries (ocaml?), which prevents Unison 2.48 being
> built for Jessie, or Unison 2.40 being built for Stretch.
>
> There doesn't appear to be an alternative for both jessie and stretch.
> What a mess!

Can you install from testing (buster) on these systems?  I.e. download
the .deb file from the net and install using dpkg directly.  There is
only a dependency on libc6 (>= 2.17); maybe that's satisfied on those
systems?  Maybe not, of course...

The ocaml aspect hit me recently in that unison v2.48.3 and v2.48.4 are
incompatible with each other.  A real mess.  Finally managed to get all
my systems running v2.48.4...

unison is a fantastic tool but these incompatibilities make it
incredibly frustrating to use every now and again.

You could consider the following options:

1. build unison yourself on each system from source.
2. try other tools such as syncthing.

Hope you get this sorted!

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, org 9.1.4

Thread

unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-10 13:30 +0100
  Re: unison compatibility in stretch Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-12-10 15:10 +0100
  Re: unison compatibility in stretch "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-12-10 16:40 +0100
  Re: unison compatibility in stretch Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2017-12-10 20:50 +0100
    Re: unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-11 11:40 +0100
      Re: unison compatibility in stretch Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-12 10:00 +0100
        Re: unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-12 11:20 +0100
          Re: unison compatibility in stretch Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-12 13:40 +0100
          Re: unison compatibility in stretch David Margerison <deltam@electrosonics.com.au> - 2017-12-12 15:10 +0100
      Re: unison compatibility in stretch Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2017-12-12 13:00 +0100
        Re: unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-13 14:00 +0100
          Re: unison compatibility in stretch Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2017-12-13 14:40 +0100
            Re: unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-13 15:10 +0100
              Re: unison compatibility in stretch Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-13 16:50 +0100
                Re: unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-13 17:50 +0100
                Re: unison compatibility in stretch Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 18:40 +0100
                Re: unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-13 18:50 +0100
                Re: unison compatibility in stretch Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-12-29 12:30 +0100
                Re: unison compatibility in stretch Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2017-12-29 17:10 +0100

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