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: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:16:52 +0200

Federico Beffa <[email-masked]> 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’t taken the time to look into it yet!

Ludo’.