Bug 572148

Summary:	net-misc/unison-2.48.3 does not provide unison-fsmonitor
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Phil Tooley <phil.tooley>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Team for the ML programming language family <ml>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	burcheri.massimo+bugs-gentoo, phil.tooley, strider1551
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578224
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	unison-fsmonitor ebuild patch

Description Phil Tooley 2016-01-16 23:38:43 UTC

Unison version 2.48.3 now provides a -repeat watch option, which uses an inotify based watcher process to perform new synchronisations as files are detected to have changed on disk.  This requires a separate binary (or python script) to be installed, which the current ebuild does not provide.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
unison-fsmonitor or fsmonitor.py installed to the appropriate location to provide support for inotify based monitoring

Comment 1 Benda Xu gentoo-dev

2017-04-12 02:16:18 UTC

I have updated unison-2.48.4.  Could you please give it a try?

Comment 2 Phil Tooley 2017-04-12 13:19:15 UTC

So since I posted (and subsequently forgot about) this bug, I learned how to write ebuilds.

The issue here is that the install is done manually rather than trying to use the makefile, so even though the unison-fsmonitor binary is built it never gets installed.

Adding a line:

newbin unison-fsmonitor unison-fsmonitor

is all that is needed.

Comment 3 Phil Tooley 2017-04-12 13:19:42 UTC

Created attachment 469804 [details, diff]
unison-fsmonitor ebuild patch

Comment 4 Phil Tooley 2017-04-12 13:22:13 UTC

Oops, nevermind.  I failed to get a suffiently recent snapshot of the portage tree before I commented.

Comment 5 Benda Xu gentoo-dev

2017-04-13 01:18:36 UTC

Thanks Phil! Yes, the build system of unison is a mess.  We decided to install manually.

Glad that you've also found the solution and the ebuild in tree works for you.

Comment 6 Benda Xu gentoo-dev

2017-12-01 09:50:30 UTC

*** Bug 639372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***