Subject: bug#36784: closed (Re: bug#24076: [PATCH] gnu: GnuPG: Really use ~/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry by default.)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:31:02 +0000

Your bug report

#24076: GnuPG lacks a default pinentry program

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#24076: [PATCH] gnu: GnuPG: Really use ~/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry by default.
From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
To: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:27:46 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 04:57:33PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Here I’d add:
> 
>   if (dir == NULL)
>     {
>        struct password *pw;
>        pw = getpwuid (getuid ());
>        if (pw != NULL)
>          dir = pw->pw_dir;
>        else
>          dir = "/";
>     }
> 
> Otherwise LGTM!

Thanks, good idea! Pushed as e5b44b06b3fb19c897fb3e430bd41941905e101f

Subject: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
From: Raghav Gururajan <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:00:44 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello Guix!

The current gnupg package in guix has "pinentry" as a missing
dependency.

Because of this, GnuPG throws the following error upon attempting to
generate key pairs:

gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
gpg: key generation failed: No pinentry

So it appears, unless the above mentioned dependency issue is fixed,
one cannot create gpg key pairs. :(

Regards,
RG.