From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 553 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2005 14:01:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Received: (qmail 22521 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2005 13:51:36 -0000 Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:01:00 -0000 From: Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov Subject: New packages: unison2.9.1, unison2.9.20, unison2.10.2 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 Three new Unison packages are now available in the Cygwin distribution: unison2.9.1, unison2.9.20, and unison2.10.2. These packages replace the older 'unison' package, which is now deprecated and has been moved into the ZZZRemovedPackages category. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. The reason for separating Unison into three different packages is that different versions of Unison will not talk to each other. For example, if you are running Unison version 2.10.2 and attempt to synchronize with a server running version 2.9.20, Unison will issue an error message about incompatible versions and quit. By installing one or more of the packages listed above, you can run whichever version you need in order to synchronize with your server. Note, however, that every time you switch to a different version of Unison for synchronizing the same set of files, you will have to wait while Unison deletes and rebuilds its archive files. You can safely install more than one of these packages; their executables are named /usr/bin/unison-2.9.1.exe etc. In addition, the package installer will create a symlink from /usr/bin/unison.exe to /etc/alternatives/unison.exe, and from /etc/alternatives/unison.exe to one of the installed /usr/bin/unison-*.exe files. You can reset this last symlink, either manually or using update-alternatives(8), to point to whichever version you want to use by default. If you are using your Cygwin host as the Unison server, you can invoke Unison on the client with '-servercmd /usr/bin/unison-$VERSION' to run the version you want on the server, or put 'servercmd /usr/bin/unison-$VERSION' into the client's preference file. Please note that these unison* packages contain the CLI or text-mode version of Unison. The GUI (GTK2) version will be packaged for Cygwin if I can get it to work. Home page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ License: GPL Andrew E. Schulman ******************************************************************* To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin@cygwin.com . *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. *******************************************************************