Re: excluding files from backup conduit

[Nathan Owens <pianocomp81 yahoo com>]

--- Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 07:39 -0500, aka.bugle wrote:
> > Matt
> > thanks for the reply!
> >   So... I should upgrade my pilot link to > 11.8 (12.0)? In a previous
> > post you stated that I would be unable to sync with Evolution if I
> > didn't use pl 11.8.
> 
> If you are having success using pl 0.11.8, I wouldn't recommend
> upgrading.  Using the 'exclude_files' mechanism to avoid crashes in the
> backup conduit is a usable workaround for the backup conduit crash.  If
> you don't have other problems, why upgrade?
> 
> If you upgrade, then you will have to deal with patching and rebuilding
> evolution.  This can be done.  Ubuntu and fedora rawhide, for example,
> are shipping pilot-link 0.12.1, gnome-pilot 2.0.14/15 and a patched
> version of Evolution.  So, you could take a look at the patches they're
> using for evolution.  One reference for the patch is:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-patches/2006-August/msg00083.html
> 
> As I said above, though, I wouldn't bother upgrading if your only
> remaining problem is the backup crash that the 'exclude_files' mechanism
> can work around.
> 

The patch was added to CVS on Monday. Just thought everyone should know (just found out myself).
Also see the bug that was submitted: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389664. Evolution
2.9.5 (development release) was released Tuesday and it includes the patch as well.

Nathan

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