Description of problem: Unison of Mga 6 does not want to work with Unison of Mga 5. Even if it is probably a Unison upstream issue, this means that no synching is possible between Mga 5 and Mga 6 instances. People with that sync or backup several Mga systems with Unison but can't upgrade all systems at once will have a big problem with this. Since synching means the use of several systems, and people rarely can upgrade all systems at once, this means in practice that Unison becomes unusable. This can be easily avoided by adding Unison 2.40 in Mga 6 as alternative version next to 2.48. That way people can continue to use Unison on 2.40 untill all systems have been upgraded.
Assigning to unison maintainer, but CC'ing all packagers collectively, because I don't remember having seen the maintainer around recently.
CC: (none) => marja11, pkg-bugsAssignee: bugsquad => pmdenielouSource RPM: (none) => unison
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaudSee Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8241
Hello, unison Mageia 6 not working with unison mageia 7. The error message is : Fatal error Received unexpected header from the server: expected "Unison 2.48\n" but received "Unison 2.51 with OCaml >= 4.01.2\n\000\000\000\000\017", which differs at "Unison 2.5". This can happen because you have different versions of Unison installed on the client and server machines, or because your connection is failing and somebody is printing an error message, or because your remote login shell is printing something itself before starting Unison. Is it possible to have an update of unison on Mageia 6, with the same version of Mageia 7, please ?
CC: (none) => olivier.placais
Please test unison-2.51.2-1.mga6 in Core/updates_testing!
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Hello David, It's Ok for me. The synchronization beetwen Mga6 & Mga 7 work fine. Thanks Olivier
Assigning to QA now, Advisory: ======================== Since mageia7 is out with a more recent unison version as mageia6, the synchronization between both can't work anymore. So this updates unison to the same version as mageia7. ======================== Packages in 6/core/updates_testing: ======================== unison-2.51.2-1.mga6.i586.rpm unison-2.51.2-1.mga6.x86_64.rpm Source RPM: ======================== unison-2.51.2-1.mga6.src.rpm
Assignee: pmdenielou => qa-bugsSource RPM: unison => unison-2.48.3-2.mga6.src.rpmVersion: Cauldron => 6
Summary: Unison Mga 6 not working with Mga 5 Unison => Unison Mga 7 not working with Mga 6 Unison
mga6, x86_64 Reproduced the problem by installing unison on a remote machine running mga7 and the test machine running mga6. Creating a profile on the mga7 machine succeeded but it could not communicate with the test machine because of the version mismatch. Updated the application and communication succeeded from both ends. The local, test machine detected new files on the remote host for the test directory and reported synchronization for the rest. Have yet to figure out how to import the new files to the test machine. For a beginner it is easier to run the gui (from system tools menu) but it can be run from the cli with the command $ unison -ui text There is also $ unison -ui graph for the gui. The help function in the gui gives access to "tutorial". $ unison -doc tutorial brings up the terminal version. The manual can be read directly at /usr/share/doc/unison/unison-2.51.2-manual.pdf $ unison -doc topics reproduces the gui Help in the terminal. The update works perfectly for Mageia 6.
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA6-64-OKCC: (none) => tarazed25
Correction for comment 6. $ unison -ui graphic to launch the gui.
Validating. Advisory in Comment 5.
Keywords: (none) => validated_updateCC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs
Keywords: (none) => advisoryCC: (none) => tmb
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2019-0110.html
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED