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

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:06:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 36784, 37266

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: 24076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: ludo <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#24076: gnupg [-agent]: when signing [commits], it claims that there is no pinentry - but there is
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:02:26 -0400

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 01:09:40PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I (finally!) implemented this second option in commit
> c7af9d0b5ebaa1fdb08ff5d8a56004998bcd8103.

It still doesn't work for me :/

> I confirmed that it has the indented effect like this:
[...]
> where the strace log shows:
> 
>   10    execve("/home/ludo/.gnupg/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry", ["pinentry"], 0x7f7aa80035e0 /* 14 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

This path includes the ~/.gnupg directory, so users need to do `export
GNUPGHOME=$HOME` for the lookup to work.

Is it okay to make GnuPG do that automatically when building the path in
get_default_pinentry_name()?
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