Re: gnupg2: fail with libgpg-error 1.47

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

tlaronde%kergis.com@localhost writes:

> I don't "want" to run with old packages. But since there may be
> packages with non default options, I need to compile.

Sure, totally find to build, this is pkgsrc, not pkgbin!

> I update pkgsrc regularily. Then I update some package(s). When the
> installed versions are OK with what is installed, the new version of
> the package builds. But some things hence drag behind.

This is what I am saying is not a good plan.  Either run your own pbulk
or use pkg_rr.

> I was hit once, and will never try the thing again, with a "pkgin"
> that updated everything. Samba was installed and working (just sharing
> files with Windows; nothing fancy; not big network of nodes, neither
> complex "users"). But the version was old (and since it worked, I
> didn't update it), but pkgin desinstalled it and was unable to install a
> new one (I guess because in the mean time there was a samba4 and a
> samba3, while the pkg was only "samba") and I noticed it was
> desinstalled only when having to reboot (since the programs were in
> memory, till reboot, it worked...). [and even installing a new version
> would not have solved the problem: it doesn't work with some Windows
> programs handling text files.]

If you update every quarter the amount of such trouble is less.

> The logic would be to not use the pkgsrc version for programs that are
> crucial or that are picky (one version could work, the other one: no),
> and to be able, for the rest,  to rebuild everything from scratch when
> updating pkgsrc, but to be able to test before switching.
>
> One may have nodes that are special and for which it is not possible to
> test without running things on them. If these are crucial for a work to
> be done, this is not always possible.
>
> I don't blame pkgsrc---I'm happy to have a package for firefox and the
> like; I wouldn't want to have to deal with the upstream source by
> myself. But for the rest, I'm facing real world constraints too.
> That's all.

ok, well then good luck and glad we have adjusted your expectations....