bug#24076: gnupg [-agent]: when signing [commits], it claims that there is no pinentry - but there is

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Danny Milosavljevic (2016-07-28 15:04 +0300) wrote:

>> Another option would be to change ‘gnupg_module_name’, in homedir.c, from:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>     case GNUPG_MODULE_NAME_PINENTRY:
>> #ifdef GNUPG_DEFAULT_PINENTRY
>>       return GNUPG_DEFAULT_PINENTRY;
>> #else
>>       X(bindir, "pinentry");
>> #endif
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> to something like:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>     case GNUPG_MODULE_NAME_PINENTRY:
>>       X(homedir, ".guix-profile/bin/pinentry);
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> … in which case GnuPG would default to the user-installed pinentry, if
>> available.  Not perfect either, but closer to what other distros do.
>
> I would like that, yes. It's not like the X(bindir, "pinentry") would
> ever work in GuixSD anyway - so no loss.

(Not only GuixSD, but Guix in general)

I agree, this would be better than the current situation.

-- 
Alex