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Subject: bug#24076: gnupg [-agent]: when signing [commits],
	it claims that there is no pinentry - but there is
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:16:52 +0200
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To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
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Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> Note that installing 'gnupg' doesn't automatically bring in
> 'pinentry'. For this reason installing 'gnupg' doesn't work out of the
> box as a user would expect:
>
> gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
> Key generation failed: No pinentry

I agree that this is a problem.  A fix that would work is the 2nd option
outlined at:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2016-07/msg00092.html

Haven=E2=80=99t taken the time to look into it yet!

Ludo=E2=80=99.