Re: sync localized directories (with different names)

Le 28/04/2024 à 17:05, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> "'Joel Carnat' via unison-users" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I want to synchronize my Documents/Downloads/Pictures/... folders on
>> various (Linux/OpenBSD) machines that use different $LANG value. The
>> central server and some workstations use LANG="us_US.UTF8". Some other
>> workstations use LANG="fr_FR.UTF8". Depending on the $LANG variable,
>> folders have different names.
> Have you considered symlinks from names in a standard namespace?  (or
> putting the files there and symlinking the localized names?)

Yes, that's a thing I would end up doing if there are no other solutions.

I just thought I may have missed something in the documentation I read :)

>> This means, for such workstations, I need one profile per directory
>> and I couldn't find how to write a big profile that would sync all
>> directories at once.
> I am not aware of a way to do this.
>
>> Is there a way to implement some kind of corresponding table that
>> would allow synchronizing the whole sets of localized directories at
>> once?
> One could surely write code to do this but it would be a fair bit of
> work.  You'd want to split root in to root/path and then have a set of
> path pairs, and expand the wire protocol.  Or more likely to have some
> sort of pathmap to translate remote path namespace to local.  So far
> unison hasn't gone too far down the sync/transform path.
>
> You could write a macro processor to generate a bunch of profiles and
> then just run multiple unisons.  I guess that's what you are doing now.
>
> Have you looked at other synchronization programs to see if they
> implement this, how, and what the issues are?  Specifically these
> situations:
>
>    homedir is on NFS or some other remote-access filesystem
>    rsync
>    syncthing
>
> I don't know of any such mechanisms for those programs.  But I don't
> differently-localize directory names so I haven't looked.
>
I'm using rsync for other purposes and I manage the sync by using 
variable shell array to implement the corresponding table.

Looking at a Syncthing tutorial video, it seems you can set a specific 
"Folder Path" for a dedicated "Folder". In the example I watched, the 
person was syncing his Windows Documents folder with a Ubuntu folder 
named syncDocuments ; which is barely what I would like to achieve.

But as I'd rather keep using Unison rather than switching tool, I can go 
for the local symlinks trick.

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