Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 19:54:28 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Any guidance for gnupg-2.0 -> gnupg-2.1 (archived encrypted email)? Message-ID: <1f553d90a8570bbd741b75b842dad455@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <20150525205952.GA4054@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> References: <20150524181321.GB1214@albert.catwhisker.org>, <20150525205952.GA4054@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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On Tue, 26 May 2015 06:59:52 +1000 John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> wrote > 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. Isn't the standard way to deal with this in the ports tree, to create <category>/portname, and <category>/portname-devel ? Having portname track "stable", and the -devel branch track "current"? Can gnupg be rearranged to follow this method? CC-ing kuriyama@ --Chris > > -- > John Marshall
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