Hello,
As far as I know we do not use any exotic functionality.
The main (and maybe even only) user is pakfire, if that works we are fine. If that breaks, we are a bit screwed :)
-Michael
On 27 Mar 2021, at 21:39, Adolf Belka adolf.belka@ipfire.org wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 27/03/2021 21:11, Peter Müller wrote:
Hello Adolf, hello development folks, sorry for my tardy reply.
No problems. I know you have been and are very busy people.
Is IPFire using the 1.4 Branch because there is some historic requirement for the older insecure keys.
(Assuming this was a question:) To my knowledge, we do not have key material in operation that would not be supported by GnuPG 2.x - the "classic" branch simply is more lightweight than the 2.x branch. The last time I looked at this, GnuPG 2.x required some flavour of the "pinentry" helper for entering passphrases, and won't compile without. Since there is no manual interaction on a firewall, "pinentry" is useless, but I was unable to work out how to omit it in GnuPG 2.x .
Thanks for the heads up on this.
Things could have been changed, meanwhile. Perhaps this is now possible, so if you have some spare time to look at this, go ahead. :-)
I will give it a try. The worst that can happen is that I can't get it working and we stay with the status quo which is working currently.
Thank you very much in advance for your efforts - and all your patches of the last weeks.
I am glad to help where I can.I know I can't help you with the real core stuff, my capabilities aren't sufficient but I can generally help with providing update patches on anything that I find has newer versions.
Regards, Adolf
Thanks, and best regards, Peter Müller