pinentry 1.2.1: libassuan API version 2 is required, but the current port is version 3

[weaverba137 (Benjamin Alan Weaver)]

The configure stage for pinentry checks for both the version and the API version of libassuan. These values are hardcoded in the pinentry configure script:

#
# libassuan is used for IPC
#
NEED_LIBASSUAN_API=2
NEED_LIBASSUAN_VERSION=2.1.0

However the ​current libassuan port is 3.0.2 with API version 3. This causes

As a workaround, it is possible to install gnupg2 without pinentry?

[weaverba137 (Benjamin Alan Weaver)]

Build log for pinentry.

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

I also just ran into this on:

macOS 26.2 25C56 (ARM) Xcode 26.2 17C52

and

macOS 15.7.3 24G419 (Intel) Xcode 26.2 17C52

It destroyed my pinentry, because I can't seem to install libassuan@2.5.7_0. Can you either please fix this asap, or tell me how I can install libassuan@2.5.7_0 and pin it?

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

I've created ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/30790 to fix this

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to weaverba137:

As a workaround, it is possible to install gnupg2 without pinentry?

The gnupg2 port has pinentry and pinentry_mac variants, and the latter is on by default.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to tessus:

tell me how I can install libassuan@2.5.7_0 and pin it?

wiki:howto/InstallingOlderPort

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

Thanks for the link how to install and older version. Unfortunately this doesn't help when doing a sudo port upgrade outdated after installing the old version. It seems that pinning is not an option.

Anyhoo, with my PR that updates pinentry all is good again. It just requires merging... ;-)

[roederja]

The pinentry version update has been merged.