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

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:01:15 +0200

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> 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?

Thanks,
Ludo’.