Curiosity.. Seems like it was blind, stumbling that led to gpg2. For legacy issues a fine, cheap SunFireV1280 with Solaris10, was reloaded with 5.8 and I was asked to "put our software on" AHEAD of what our usual, contract IT, admin does. The contractor rightfully figured his 10 year standard overlaying of added software was woefully out of date.
All our Solaris stuff is prohibited from internet connection, so I, one by one, download CSW packages, correct the names, e.g. sunos -> SunOS. Then use that place as a repository for pkg-get on other machines. Having been bothered by that md5 and gpg lack from a few weeks ago when I was chose to do a general upgrade AND add teTex here, I vowed to set that stuff up correctly from the start. From the SunFire I did the pkg-get setup, set url to the repository, pkg-get -i textutils (and forgot... again... That its *g*md5sum). Next was gpg. pkg-get -i gpg which complained the package could not be found. Indeed it was not there, but the pgp2 package was, so I, shrugged and did pgp2... Only to find that once I was "ready to go" to get down to business of getting some 200 packages loaded, pkg-get was STILL complaining about gpg. I did not (and do not) want to wonder about fighting between gpg and gpg2 if I should decide to go back, download gpg, and install it for this purpose. Hence my question. Googling, I saw the reservations that appeared on the DEVELOPMENT thread last December. I read about gpg2 being "Complete replacement for gpg". Not so complete, huh? In the absence of an instantaneous reply here in this forum, I went ahead with the "ln -s gpg2 gpg" and encountered zero problems with these first 110 packages. [My gpg on "my" workstation originated a long time ago, pre-blastwave/openCSW, from "the other guys", so somehow I never actually needed "pkg-get -i gpg". That's how the narrative in my head is running at the moment.] Anyway, thanks and I gotta get back to work. George Wyche Austin, TX -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 4:57 AM To: Questions and discussions Subject: Re: [csw-users] Is ln -s gpg2 gpg ok for pkg-get purposes? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Wyche, George PW <[email protected]> wrote: > Is ln -s gpg2 gpg ok for pkg-get purposes? > > Or should I go back and download the earlier gpg version package and > install that? For pkg-get/pkgutil purposes I think it's okay; in the worst case you might have trouble verifying signatures made with gpg 1.x. There's also an alternatives system in the making, so at some point you'll have a command line utility to choose between gpg implementations. Out of curiosity, do you have a reason to use gpg2? Is it gpg-agent? Maciej _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
