Re: [Enigmail] Upgrading g(nu)pg2 from 2.1.11

Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]> Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:13:30 +0300

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Jonas Rudolph <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am unfamiliar with apt-build.  Does it work like explained here, https://ostechnix.com/how-to-build-debian-packages-from-source/

Basically, yes.  Itʼs nothing more than a wrapper around apt-get, dpkg-buildpackage, etc.

By all means you are free to use them directly, if you are more familiar with that.

FWIW, there is also apt(-get) source --compile.

> or does it actually not get the latest version

It follows the same rules as any other apt-tool: defaults to the latest version from the current target release, and you can override the latter with -t TARGET switch or NAME/TARGET notation.  E. g.:

	# aptitude -t sid build-dep hello
	$ apt -t sid source --compile hello

> because it doesn't find it in the "sources" as well?

All deb-src should be specified in advance, of course.

> Otherwise I'd go on and build everything as it's listed here: https://www.gnupg.org/download/

Yes, you perhaps would like to upgrade not gnupg2 only, but all software that comes from gnupg.org (npth, libassuan, etc), even if APT says dependencies are fine otherwise.

> (I sense lots of fun coming up setting all paths correctly)

If you are going to use APT, it will either work like a charm or bump against dependencies that unresolvable without upgrading the whole system.  I am still leaning to bet on the latter, though.

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