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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 06, 2023,

updated Apr 08, 2023

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=> ↺ PKGget

gnupg signed-key-pair created in initrd

=> ↺ gnupg signed-key-pair created in initrd

Posted earlier today about compiling gnupg version 1.4.23 in OE:

https://bkhome.org/news/202304/gnupg1-static-compile-in-oe.html

=> ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/202304/gnupg1-static-compile-in-oe.html

And always require a root password be set:

https://bkhome.org/news/202304/always-ask-for-root-password-at-first-bootup.html

=> ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/202304/always-ask-for-root-password-at-first-bootup.html

=> ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/202304/gnupg1-static-compile-in-oe.html | ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/202304/always-ask-for-root-password-at-first-bootup.html

Always ask for root password at first bootup

=> ↺ Always ask for root password at first bootup

At first bootup of a new installation of Easy, a password is asked for, to encrypt some folders in the working-partition. The same password is also applied to 'root' and 'zeus' users.

However, some people do not enter a password, so the folders are not encrypted. That may be a deliberate choice, or they may be forced as booting from an old GRUB (v1 and early-v2) or GRUB4DOS that does not recognize an ext4 filesystem with the encrypt-feature enabled.

gnupg1 static compile in OE

=> ↺ gnupg1 static compile in OE

Back around mid-2018, I investigated Flatpaks, and as part of that, used the 'gpg' utility, version 1.4.23, to generate a signed-key-pair in the initrd. Posted about it here:

https://bkhome.org/news/201806/auto-generated-gnupg-signed-key-pair.html

=> ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/201806/auto-generated-gnupg-signed-key-pair.html

The latest OpenEmbedded/Yocto project, 'oe-qky-kirkstone', was not setup for compiling with musl. In 2018, I had OE setup to compile with musl, so as to create small statically-linked utilities, such as 'busybox' and 'gpg'.

=> ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/201806/auto-generated-gnupg-signed-key-pair.html

UPDATE

Two more updates this Saturday:

Package manager wrapper improved

=> ↺ Package manager wrapper improved

About a week ago, posted about package manager consolidation:

https://bkhome.org/news/202304/package-manager-consolidation.html

=> ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/202304/package-manager-consolidation.html

There are now four package managers, and I have added the fourth to the wrapper:

[...]

I also fixed it so when click on the "pkg" icon in a container, only "PKGget" will be available.

=> ↺ https://bkhome.org/news/202304/package-manager-consolidation.html

AppImage Installer update fix

=> ↺ AppImage Installer update fix

I fixed buglet-1 and buglet-2 reported at the release of Easy 5.2.1:

When doing an update of an AppImage, there may be some indecision what latest AppImage file to download, for example: [...]

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