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

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>, 24076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24076: gnupg [-agent]: when signing [commits], it claims that there is no pinentry - but there is
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:04:41 +0200

> Another option would be to change ‘gnupg_module_name’, in homedir.c, from:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     case GNUPG_MODULE_NAME_PINENTRY:
> #ifdef GNUPG_DEFAULT_PINENTRY
>       return GNUPG_DEFAULT_PINENTRY;
> #else
>       X(bindir, "pinentry");
> #endif
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> to something like:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     case GNUPG_MODULE_NAME_PINENTRY:
>       X(homedir, ".guix-profile/bin/pinentry);
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> … in which case GnuPG would default to the user-installed pinentry, if
> available.  Not perfect either, but closer to what other distros do.

I would like that, yes. It's not like the X(bindir, "pinentry") would ever work in GuixSD anyway - so no loss.

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