libassuan

Libassuan is a small library implementing the so-called Assuan protocol. This protocol is used for IPC between most newer GnuPG components. Both, server and client side functions are provided. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Library package

Use as Dependency

Library packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies, however they are typically used as buildtime dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/libassuan as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/libassuan)

Runtime Dependency

pkg_deps=(core/libassuan)

Use as a Library

Installation

To install this plan, run the following command:

hab pkg install core/libassuan

hab pkg install core/libassuan
» Installing core/libassuan
☁ Determining latest version of core/libassuan in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803) than remote version (core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200416080433)
→ Using core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803
★ Install of core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803 complete with 0 new packages installed.

Viewing library files

To view the library files first get the habitat installation directory

hab pkg path core/libassuan
/hab/pkgs/core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803

Then list the libraries, for example:

ls -1 $(hab pkg path core/libassuan)/lib
libassuan.a
libassuan.la
libassuan.so
libassuan.so.0
libassuan.so.0.7.2

Use as Tool

Although libassuan is primarily a library as described above, it also includes a binary as described below

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/libassuan --binlink

will add the following binary to the PATH:

• /bin/libassuan-config

For example:

$ hab pkg install core/libassuan --binlink
» Installing core/libassuan
☁ Determining latest version of core/libassuan in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803) than remote version (core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200416080433)
→ Using core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803
★ Install of core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803 complete with 0 new packages installed.
» Binlinking libassuan-config from core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803 into /bin
★ Binlinked libassuan-config from core/libassuan/2.4.2/20200922145803 to /bin/libassuan-config

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/libassuan-config --help or libassuan-config --help

$ libassuan-config --help
Usage: libassuan-config [OPTIONS]
Options:
        [--prefix[=DIR]]
        [--exec-prefix[=DIR]]
        [--version]
        [--libs]
        [--cflags]
        [--host].