On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 19:30, b...@adversary.org said: > Good to know, but will a version of GPG always select the highest in a > listor the closest number to its own version number if there's not an > exact match?
No, the algorithm views the version as a string simply trims the dot/dash delimted parts one after the other until it finds an _exact_ match. > Now if I'm using 1.4.21, will it select the closest version number > (1.4.20) or the highest (1.4.23)? It will use 1.4 Note that there is another compatibility feature which can be used to ignore errors due to new options. For example: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ignore-invalid-option foo bar verbose foo --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Here foo is an option only available in 2.3.0 but you want to use this gpg.conf also with gpg 2.2.5. The ignore-invalid-option meta option will silently ignore unknown options named "foo" or "bar". Multiple ignore-invalid-option lines are cumulative. This feature is available since 1.4.13 and 2.0.20 . Shalom-Salam, Werner -- # Please read: Daniel Ellsberg - The Doomsday Machine # Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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