Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 06:59:52 +1000 From: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any guidance for gnupg-2.0 -> gnupg-2.1 (archived encrypted email)? Message-ID: <20150525205952.GA4054@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20150524181321.GB1214@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20150524181321.GB1214@albert.catwhisker.org>
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--4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 24 May 2015, 11:13 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > Last November, I encountered a reason to deviate from that: When > security/gnupg became gnupg-2.1, I found that gnupg-2.1 was unable to > decrypt some (well, any, in my experience) archived encrypted email > messages. I was bitten badly in November when I blindly upgraded security/gnupg and found myself in the new, shiny, non-STABLE version 2.1.0. I can't remember the details, but too much stuff didn't work. I went to the release notes and other places and spent about a day trying to make the best of it. I had some success but ended up reverting security/gnupg -> security/gnupg20 after I discovered the following on the GnuPG home page. - 2.0.27 is the stable version suggested for most users, - 2.1.4 is the brand-new modern version with support for ECC and many other new features, and - 1.4.19 is the classic portable version. The STABLE 2.0 branch still works for me and the surprise factor is not as prominent as in 2.1. I have no idea why the main FreeBSD port was switched from STABLE to CURRENT and the STABLE version was relegated to a new version-tagged port. Sorry if this is off-topic but maybe it helps some folks. --=20 John Marshall --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlVjjUgACgkQw/tAaKKahKJvMwCeOVlvxuarJpxOcQnEg6xQ/sMp hTAAn0PkBRQyEzv/FoLSvgPdXY9gD3cE =OzDv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--
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