Epiphany requires gnupg and does not accept gnupg21?

David Evans devans at macports.org
Sat Oct 8 22:50:51 PDT 2016


On 10/8/16 7:03 PM, David Evans wrote:
> On 10/8/16 5:29 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>>> On Oct 8, 2016, at 3:33 PM, Johannes Kastl <mail at ojkastl.de> wrote:
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>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> while trying to upgrade my gimp2 port today, I stumbled upon
>>> epiphany throwing this error:
>>>
>>>> sudo port install epiphany --->  Computing dependencies for
>>>> epiphany Error: Unable to execute port: Can't install gnupg
>>>> because conflicting ports are active: gnupg21
>>>
>>> Is this a known issue?
>>
>> That would be gcr, not epiphany.
>>
>> 	% port echo depends:gnupg and rdepof:epiphany
>> 	gcr
>>
>> gnupg and gnupg21 conflict so that users don't run into unexpected
>> behavior switching back and forth [1]. I'm not really sure what the best
>> way of remedying this is.
>>
>> [1]: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45856#comment:3
>>
>> vq
>>
> 
> As Larry says, the gnupg dependency is coming from gcr, and, at first glance, that doesn't seem correct to
> me.  gcr provides ui widgets to display/handle gnupg generated records as well as opengpg, etc, but libgcrypt and
> p11-kit should be sufficient to do this and I don't see any dependency on gnupg in configure.ac.   This just
> may be a hold over from old times.  Will investigate further and see if the gnupg dependency can just go away.
> 
> Dave
>

I've confirmed that gcr's dependency on gnupg is unnecessary -- works fine without it.  Removed in r153722.
Let me know if you have any further problems upgrading gimp2.



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