Re: Possible bug?

"Head Geek (伟思礼)" <[email protected]> writes:

>> I wonder if they are empty after the upgrade process.
>
> I suspect they are: the upgrade of webtrees unzips new files to a
> temporary directory then moves them to their correct locations.  The
> other isn't actually an upgrade; it creates a destination directory
> for uploads in the format named by the current year.  In my opinion it
> (Wordpress) should cxreate it if needed when an upload occurs.

It would be good to inspect them before sync and assume as little as
possible :-)

> Does unison delete empty directories instead of synchronizing them?  I
> do occasionally remove empty directories, but I have run unison
> several times since the last time I did that locally.

I expect them to be synchronized.  I did a few tests and it did it
right.

>> You didn't mention OS, filesystems, use of NFS/CIFS, etc.
>
> Local is the latest macOS, and remote is 
> Linux web17 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.119-1 (2024-11-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> unison is version 2.53.7 (ocaml 5.2.0) local and version 2.52.1 (ocaml 4.13.1) on the webserver

OK - you are up to date and not using Windows or CIFS.

>> It would be great if you could turn this into a reproduction script, and
>> of course trying may cause you to figure out something else about the
>> situation, which currently has a lot of unknowns.
>
> I've put in a cronjob to remove empty directories daily at 03:23, but
> the next time there's an upgrade (always triggered manually), I'll
> delete the cron job and run unison with debug.  The cronjob of course
> risks a server-side error removing local files, but the saerver has
> daily backups and the local has hourly, so I'm not worried.  In fact,
> unison has always had that risk.

I would run unison before the update too, to make sure unison thinks
things are synced.

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