On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On Sat 2018-02-17 17:06:54 -0600, helices wrote: > > I will probably never understand why wanting to run the most current > > version of gnupg on a plethora of servers is controversial. > > Here's one last try to explain the situation. > > GnuPG (and the libraries it depends on) are used by (aka "depended on > by") other libraries and tools, both those integrated into the operating > system itself, and those that might be externally installed. Some of > these dependencies are "brittle". > One solution to this situation may be to install the latest GnuPG in a Docker container, where it can have all the required libraries and dependencies that it needs, without disturbing the host OS. But I am aware that this may present some challenges for normal usage and may not be suitable except for testing. Another solution may be to use a "snap", which is a kind of new software packaging invented by Ubuntu: - https://snapcraft.io/ - https://docs.snapcraft.io/snaps/intro The idea is that a software is shipped with all the dependencies, so it does not matter in which OS it is installed, it will always work. I don't know the details of snaps. Since it is a "containerized software package" maybe it is not much different from the docker solution above and maybe has the same challenges/problems. If anybody is willing to give a try to any of these solutions I would like to help. Regards, Dashamir
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