Bug 572148 – net-misc/unison-2.48.3 does not provide unison-fsmonitor

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[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 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 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 2017-12-01 09:50:30 UTC]

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