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Port details
unison253 User-level file synchronization tool
2.53.8_1 netnew! on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout Package not present on quarterly.This port was created during this quarter. It will be in the next quarterly branch but not the current one.
Deprecated DEPRECATED: Legacy release unsupported by upstream
Expiration Date EXPIRATION DATE: 2027-06-30
Maintainer: madpilot@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-05-03 13:03:04
Last Update: 2026-05-05 22:13:45
Commit Hash: dc0a16e
License: GPLv3+
WWW:
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Description:
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, etc.) distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.) uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.) and other synchronizers (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc).
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
There is no configure plist information for this port.
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • unison253>0:net/unison253
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
  • unison253-nox11
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net/unison253/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net/unison253
  • pkg install unison253
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: unison253
Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
  • x11: unison253
  • nox11: unison253-nox11
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1762328383 SHA256 (bcpierce00-unison-v2.53.8_GH0.tar.gz) = d0d30ea63e09fc8edf10bd8cbab238fffc8ed510d27741d06b5caa816abd58b6 SIZE (bcpierce00-unison-v2.53.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 1448430

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
unison
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FreeBSD:13:latest-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest-2.53.8------
FreeBSD:14:quarterly--------
FreeBSD:15:latest--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest--n/a-n/an/a--
 

unison-nox11
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest-2.53.8------
FreeBSD:14:quarterly--------
FreeBSD:15:latest--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest--n/a-n/an/a--
 

unison253
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest----2.53.8_1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly--------
FreeBSD:15:latest-2.53.8_1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-2.53.8_1n/a-n/an/a--
 

unison253-nox11
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest----2.53.8_1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly--------
FreeBSD:15:latest-2.53.8_1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-2.53.8_1n/a-n/an/a--
 

Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. ocamlc : lang/ocaml
  2. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  3. gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
  4. tex.fmt : print/tex-formats
  5. dvips : print/tex-dvipsk
  6. icotool : graphics/icoutils
  7. ocaml-lablgtk3>0 : x11-toolkits/ocaml-lablgtk3
Library dependencies:
  1. libinotify.so : devel/libinotify
  2. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  3. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  4. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  5. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  6. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  7. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  8. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  9. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  10. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  11. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  12. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  13. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
Patch dependencies:
  1. ocamlc : lang/ocaml
Extract dependencies:
  1. ocamlc : lang/ocaml
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for unison253-2.53.8_1: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation FSMONITOR=on: Compile and install fsmonitor plugin ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
net_unison253
USES:
localbase ocaml:build pkgconfig gettext-runtime gnome tex
pkg-message:
If upgrading from > 2.53.7:
STarting with version 2.53.8 the "unison" binary is the text only version. The GUI version is installed as unison-gui and no "unison-text" binary is installed anymore. Please make sure to update any local scripts and configurations that were using the old naming scheme.
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/bcpierce00/unison/tar.gz/v2.53.8?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.53.8_1
05 May 2026 22:13:45
commit hash: dc0a16e774c7c3177ac45eabed195bdedd9fa20ccommit hash: dc0a16e774c7c3177ac45eabed195bdedd9fa20ccommit hash: dc0a16e774c7c3177ac45eabed195bdedd9fa20ccommit hash: dc0a16e774c7c3177ac45eabed195bdedd9fa20c files touched by this commit
Guido Falsi (madpilot) search for other commits by this committer
net/unison253: Fix PKGBASE value

Reported by:	antoine
Fixes:		b09b2548c2 net/unison253: Add port preserving new legacy version
2.53.8
03 May 2026 12:57:55
commit hash: b09b2548c2624945b11e328dc87dc5bc500f8da0commit hash: b09b2548c2624945b11e328dc87dc5bc500f8da0commit hash: b09b2548c2624945b11e328dc87dc5bc500f8da0commit hash: b09b2548c2624945b11e328dc87dc5bc500f8da0 files touched by this commit
Guido Falsi (madpilot) search for other commits by this committer
net/unison253: Add port preserving new legacy version

Preserve version 2.53 as versioned legacy port.

This is the last version including compatibility support for older
version's wire protocol and archive files.

Setting a long term expiration date, since this is anyway legacy
and unsupported by dvelopers.

Number of commits found: 2