gnupg: discarding older version

[Lowell Gilbert]

Gerard Seibert <gerard at seibercom.net> writes:

> Running:
> 	/usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL=
> produces this output:
>
> gnupg-1.4.6_2                       <   needs updating (index has 2.0.1)
>
>
> Running:
> 	pkgdb -Fv
> produces this output:
>
> Checking for origin duplicates
> Duplicated origin: security/gnupg - gnupg-1.4.6_2 gnupg-2.0.1
> Unregister any of them? [no]
>
> This is from the /usr/ports/UPDATING file:
>
> 20061221:
>    AFFECTS: users of security/gnupg
>    AUTHOR: kuriyama at FreeBSD.org
>
>    The security/gnupg port was upgraded to 2.0.1 (with security fix)
>    and good-old gnupg-1.4.6 was repocopied to security/gnupg1.
>
>    Both of security/gnupg (2.x) and security/gnupg1 (1.4.x) are
>    designed not to conflict with each other.  So you can use
>    security/gnupg1 for gpg(1), and use security/gnupg for gpg2(1)
>    commands.
>
>    All directly dependents are $PORTREVISION bumped, so portupgrade -R
>    gnupg will works fine.  After portupgrade, you will have both of
>    gnupg-2.0.1 and gnupg-1.4.6.
>
> Obviously, I now have both versions installed on my PC. My question is
> should I simply answer (YES) and unregister the older version of this
> program, or simply leave both versions installed. If I unregister the
> older version, will it cause any problems?

Not unless you wanted to use it.