From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] emacs: Add notmuch-crypto-gpg-program and use it
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 08:02:01 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mury0w2e.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cun8t3i0zb1.fsf@dme.org>
David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
> On Sunday, 2018-09-30 at 08:34:29 -03, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
>>
>>> Allow the user to specify the gpg program to use when retriving keys,
>>> etc., defaulting to the value of `epg-gpg-program'.
>>
>> typo in retriving.
>
> Will fix.
>
>> More interestingly, would you mind documenting the use case in the
>> commit message? I'm unclear on a couple points
>>
>> - why one needs a different gpg for key retrieval
>
> I want to use “gpg” for most operations that deal with encryption within
> emacs, but when using notmuch remotely over an ssh connection (that is
> the UI and database on different machines) I need to update the keyring
> on the database machine so that notmuch itself sees the key, not the
> keyring on my local machine (arguably I need to update both, but hey),
> so use “ssh <server> gpg” instead.
>
>> - whether the new variable is just for key retrieval, or as the name
>> notmuch-crypto-gpg-program suggests, all crypto operations from notmuch.
>
> Just for key retrieval.
I guess renaming the variable and documenting it as used only for key
retrieval would help both questions here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-01 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 11:29 [PATCH v2 0/4] Retrieve GPG keys asynchronously David Edmondson
2018-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] emacs: Asynchronous retrieval of GPG keys David Edmondson
2018-09-30 1:48 ` David Bremner
2018-10-01 9:48 ` David Edmondson
2018-10-01 11:00 ` David Bremner
2018-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] emacs: Minor refactoring of crypto code David Edmondson
2018-09-30 12:07 ` David Bremner
2018-10-01 9:49 ` David Edmondson
2018-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] emacs: Add notmuch-crypto-gpg-program and use it David Edmondson
2018-09-30 11:34 ` David Bremner
2018-10-01 9:52 ` David Edmondson
2018-10-01 11:02 ` David Bremner [this message]
2018-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] emacs: Improve the reporting of key activity David Edmondson
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