Option --encrypt does not work - causes usage exit

[Jim B.]

FreeBSD jpbsd 13.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Aug 24 07:33:27 UTC 2021 [e-mail]:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64

• age version:
  [jpb@jpbsd:~/.mykeep]$ age --version
  (devel)

What were you trying to do

Encrypt a file using a passphrase.

What happened

Error exit.

Looks like the '--encrypt' option is not recognized.

jpb@jpbsd:~]$ age --encrypt --passphrase --armor -o hosts.asc hosts
flag provided but not defined: -encrypt
Usage:
    age (-r RECIPIENT | -R PATH)... [--armor] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
...
error exit

[jpb@jpbsd:~]$ echo $?
2

This is possibly a FreeBSD portage problem. Not sure...

Jim Brown,
[e-mail]

[Filippo Valsorda]

Yeah, the FreeBSD port is way behind at v1.0.0-beta6, which didn't have -e at all. Also, they should be adding the ldflags to bake the version into the binary, so this kind of confusion is easier to debug.

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/security/age/Makefile

Mind reporting it to them? Thank you!

[Jim B.]

Done.