Re: Gnus and rsync

[Eric S Fraga]

nunojsilva@invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) writes:

> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> nunojsilva@invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) writes:
>>
>>> So I've now hit the issue where I have two computers on which I want to
>>> keep gnus stuff on-sync.
>>>
>>> I've tried the simple solution: rsyncing the whole bunch of files (news,
>>> mail, .gnus.el, and some other gnus files.
>>
>> maybe have a look at unison?  works very well for keeping systems in
>> sync.
>
> I will, but AFAICT, from the debugging I made today, the issue is not
> rsync, so I'll delay looking unison for a while.
>
> What happens is that, after starting gnus, a lot of NOV files get
> changed.

I found that I had to include .newsrc.eld in the syncing operation
(whether via rsync or unison) but that, for some reason, I also find
that all the nov files get updated and need re-syncing every time.  Very
annoying but so far no problems (other than slowness in syncing).

> Next step seems to be understanding which changes are made to NOV files
> so I can know why is this happening...

Please do let us know.  I would like to avoid this overhead...

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1