On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:46:27PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 15:02, schrieb Jerome Vouillon: > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:37:59AM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > >> the latest version of unison ignores the perms=0 option. I see this > >> when I try to sync a local dir with an smb share, where I cannot set > >> any unix permṡ. > > > > The preference "perms=0" means that permissions should not be > > propagated. But Unison still sets the permissions of an updated file > > based on the permissions of the previous version of the file, in order > > to preserve file permissions. > > (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unison/+bug/304453 ) > > > > You now need to add "dontchmod=true" to your profile as well, if you > > don't want Unison to use chmod at all. > But has unison's behaviour changed? I have in the meantime downgraded > to unison2.27.57, and here it works without that option.
Unison's behavior was changed in 2.27 to provide a workaround to the chmod failure issue. It has been reverted back in 2.32 and the "dontchmod" preference has been added as a better workaround. -- Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
