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Re: unison compatibility in stretch



On 2017-12-12, Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> wrote:

>>> tony@tony-lx:~$ unison -addversionno tony
>>> Contacting server...
>>> bash: unison-2.48: command not found
>>> Fatal error: Lost connection with the server
>>>
>>>
>> * workaroundable via symlink version number truncation bug
>>
> Thanks for your reply, Curt, but we appear to speak different languages ;)
>
> WVSVNTB?
>
> could you please reduce the brevity of your solution?
>
> Cheers, Tony
>
>

A reduced brevity version would be to create a symbolic link unison-2.48
pointing to your installed version (unison-2.48.3?) to obviate
the dreaded WVSWVNTB.

 ln -s unison-2.48.3 unison-2.48

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