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

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès (2016-07-27 14:01 +0300) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>
>>> My ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file reads this:
>>> 
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> pinentry-program /home/ludo/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Yes, the file didn't exist. I created it and it works now.
>
> Great.
>
>> I did install the pinentry package, though.
>>
>> Do you think it would make sense to put this in the skeleton for new user accounts?
>
> Maybe.  Ideally, this would be addressed by GnuPG itself, which should
> somehow make it easier to set it up, because there’s nothing
> GuixSD-specific here AFAICS.  What do other distros do to help?

My guess: other distros do nothing, because GnuPG searches for
pinentries in a default bindir, I mean in a dir where gpg is placed
(/usr/bin or whatever).

IMO this is Guix-specific, as you have to run gpg-agent with
--pinentry-program option (or specify it in the "gpg-agent.conf" file).

-- 
Alex