Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2018-02-20 13:18:40 +0100, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > 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. I think this misses the point that

Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-20 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:45:52AM -0800, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > How can GnuPG contribute to fixing this problem? The traditional way > that many other projects have taken is to define their core programmatic > functionality into a library with a strict interface guarantees, and > have

Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-20 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 02/20/2018 01:18 PM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > If anybody is willing to give a try to any of these solutions I would > like to help. I would be generally cautious for both approaches without proper support in the surrounding infrastructure. In particular an upgrade to a depending library would

Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-20 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor 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

Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-19 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 19 February 2018 at 8:51:08 PM, in a message with no id, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote:- > I think gpgme is the answer here as well. If you mean > specifically > a python interface to gpgme then it's probably up to > a python

Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-19 Thread edgar
On Feb 19, 2018 12:45 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor 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

Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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