fsmonitor missing

[Itay Lavie]

I noticed that both the code and the binary doesn't include fsmonitor.py nor unison-fsmonitor so users are unable to use -repeat watch function of unison.
It is however included in the original (devs website) in version 2.40
Is that done purposely?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jake Teton-Landis (just-1-jake)]

This issue is forcing me to create my own package - the `-repeat watch` functionality is essential! And unison-fsmonitor is already compiled successfully by the package build script - we just don't package it.

[Nicolas (niccer)]

Is there any problem with unison-fsmonitor that is compiled already? Packaging it should not be the issue...

[Itay Lavie (itayblabla)]

I don't know of any issue, I used the compiled one

[MMS-Prodeia (mms-prodeia)]

Its still missing in Xenial!!

[Robert Broen (rbroen)]

Looks like it is still missing in 19.04 too...

[Itay Lavie (itayblabla)]

Amazing..

On Mon, May 27, 2019, 18:24 Robert Broen <email address hidden> wrote:

> Looks like it is still missing in 19.04 too...
>
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> Title:
> fsmonitor missing
>
> Status in unison package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I noticed that both the code and the binary doesn't include fsmonitor.py
> nor unison-fsmonitor so users are unable to use -repeat watch function of
> unison.
> It is however included in the original (devs website) in version 2.40
> Is that done purposely?
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unison/+bug/1558737/+subscriptions
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[Itay Lavie (itayblabla)]

Happy third birthday! 🎂

On Mon, May 27, 2019, 18:26 Itay Lavie <email address hidden> wrote:

> Amazing..
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019, 18:24 Robert Broen <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Looks like it is still missing in 19.04 too...
>>
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>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558737
>>
>> Title:
>> fsmonitor missing
>>
>> Status in unison package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>> I noticed that both the code and the binary doesn't include
>> fsmonitor.py nor unison-fsmonitor so users are unable to use -repeat watch
>> function of unison.
>> It is however included in the original (devs website) in version 2.40
>> Is that done purposely?
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unison/+bug/1558737/+subscriptions
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>

[Jean Claveau (jean-claveau)]

To build it

UNISON_VERSION=2.51.2
echo "Install Unison." \
    && apt instal wget ocaml
    && pushd /tmp \
    && wget https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/archive/v$UNISON_VERSION.tar.gz \
    && tar -xzvf v$UNISON_VERSION.tar.gz \
    && rm v$UNISON_VERSION.tar.gz \
    && pushd unison-$UNISON_VERSION \
    && make \
    && cp -t /usr/local/bin ./src/unison ./src/unison-fsmonitor \
    && popd \
    && rm -rf unison-$UNISON_VERSION \
    && popd

From here https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/issues/208#issuecomment-513314514

[David-nnucomputerwhiz (david-nnucomputerwhiz)]

Still not possible to use -repeat watch in 21.10.

[Daniel Clemente (n142857)]

The unison Debian package also has an open ticket to package unison-fsmonitor: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819341

If the Ubuntu package depends on or is the same as Debian's package (something I didn't check) then the Debian one must be fixed first.

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

Same on Ubuntu 22.04.