* bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
@ 2019-07-24 10:00 Raghav Gururajan
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0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Raghav Gururajan @ 2019-07-24 10:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 36784
Hello Guix!
The current gnupg package in guix has "pinentry" as a missing
dependency.
Because of this, GnuPG throws the following error upon attempting to
generate key pairs:
gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
gpg: key generation failed: No pinentry
So it appears, unless the above mentioned dependency issue is fixed,
one cannot create gpg key pairs. :(
Regards,
RG.
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* bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
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@ 2019-07-25 0:58 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-25 13:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Raghav Gururajan @ 2019-07-25 0:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 36784
Hello Guix!
After brief discussion on IRC channel, I found out that adding
"pinentry-program /home/user/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry-program" to
"gpg-agent.conf" in "/home/user/.gnupg", was able to temproarily
resolve the situation. Thanks to Ricardo (rekado).
I still suggest that there should be a default/fallback option for
this. After reviewing guix repository, I found pinentry, emacs-
pinentry, pinentry-tty, pinentry-qt, pinentry-gtk2, pinentry-gnome3,
pinentry-emacs and pinentry-efl, as available pinentry programs.
Out of all, I suggest pinentry to be set as default/fallback option for
gnupg in guix, as it is platform-independent and provides both CUI
(console) and GUI.
Thank you!
Regards,
RG.
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* bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
2019-07-25 0:58 ` Raghav Gururajan
@ 2019-07-25 13:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-25 13:08 ` Raghav Gururajan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2019-07-25 13:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Raghav Gururajan; +Cc: 36784
Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org> writes:
> I still suggest that there should be a default/fallback option for
> this. After reviewing guix repository, I found pinentry, emacs-
> pinentry, pinentry-tty, pinentry-qt, pinentry-gtk2, pinentry-gnome3,
> pinentry-emacs and pinentry-efl, as available pinentry programs.
>
> Out of all, I suggest pinentry to be set as default/fallback option for
> gnupg in guix, as it is platform-independent and provides both CUI
> (console) and GUI.
I think it would be good to have a sensible default. Is there a good
reason not to include pinentry-tty or somemthing similarly small?
--
Ricardo
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* bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
2019-07-25 13:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
@ 2019-07-25 13:08 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-25 13:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Raghav Gururajan @ 2019-07-25 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ricardo Wurmus; +Cc: 36784
> Is there a good
> reason not to include pinentry-tty or somemthing similarly small?
It appears pinentry-tty is only console-based. If graphical
applications like MUA, Key Managers etc require pinentry-program, it
usually uses pop-up (gui) for passphrase input. Since pinentry provides
both console and gui, I suggested it as it will be well-rounded
solution. :)
Regards,
RG.
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* bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
2019-07-25 13:08 ` Raghav Gururajan
@ 2019-07-25 13:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-25 13:36 ` Raghav Gururajan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2019-07-25 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Raghav Gururajan; +Cc: 36784
Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org> writes:
>> Is there a good
>> reason not to include pinentry-tty or somemthing similarly small?
>
> It appears pinentry-tty is only console-based. If graphical
> applications like MUA, Key Managers etc require pinentry-program, it
> usually uses pop-up (gui) for passphrase input. Since pinentry provides
> both console and gui, I suggested it as it will be well-rounded
> solution. :)
I guess the reason for not adding a graphical pinentry is that this
would increase the package closure of the gnupg package.
Perhaps we should add gnupg-minimal for use in other package
definitions.
--
Ricardo
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* bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
2019-07-25 13:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
@ 2019-07-25 13:36 ` Raghav Gururajan
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Raghav Gururajan @ 2019-07-25 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ricardo Wurmus; +Cc: 36784
> Perhaps we should add gnupg-minimal for use in other package
> definitions.
That would actually be wise.
Regards,
RG.
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