[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.13, unison2.17, unison2.27
Andrew Schulman
schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Fri Nov 16 23:18:00 GMT 2007
> The man page for alternatives
> (8) does not seem to specify the allowed range for priority values, but using
> 2017 for unison 2.17
> and 2027 for unison 2.27 seem to upset it:
>
> ajm> /usr/sbin/alternatives.exe --display unison
> path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/unison
> ajm>
>
> Editing /var/lib/alternatives/unison as follows seems to fix things:
>
> ajm> cat /var/lib/alternatives/unison
> auto
> /usr/bin/unison
>
> /usr/bin/unison-2.17
> 17
> /usr/bin/unison-2.27
> 27
> ajm> /usr/sbin/alternatives.exe --display unison
> unison - status is auto.
> link currently points to /usr/bin/unison-2.27
> /usr/bin/unison-2.17 - priority 17
> /usr/bin/unison-2.27 - priority 27
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/unison-2.27.
> ajm ~>
I can't reproduce this problem on my host:
$ alternatives --display unison
unison - status is auto.
link currently points to /usr/bin/unison-2.27
/usr/bin/unison-2.13 - priority 2013
/usr/bin/unison-2.17 - priority 2017
/usr/bin/unison-2.27 - priority 2027
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/unison-2.27.
$ cat /var/lib/alternatives/unison
auto
/usr/bin/unison
/usr/bin/unison-2.13
2013
/usr/bin/unison-2.17
2017
/usr/bin/unison-2.27
2027
> I also found a mixture of names - the new versions install "unison" symlinks,
> but the older versions
> installed "unison.exe" symlinks. Some of this may have been my hand edits to
> fix things up though.
I'm not sure. At this point I recommend that you remove and reinstall all of
the unison alternatives on your host, as follows:
rm /var/lib/alternatives/unison
for f in /etc/postinstall/unison* ; do $f ; done
and see if that clears up the problem.
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