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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Subject: bug#24076: closed (Re: bug#24076: [PATCH] gnu: GnuPG: Really use
 ~/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry by default.)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:31:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

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

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

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

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: gnupg [-agent]: when signing [commits], it claims that there is no
 pinentry - but there is
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:05:07 +0200

dannym <at> dayas ~/src/guix$ strace -f  git commit -S -m "x" gnu/packages/databases.scm 2>&1 |grep pinentry
[pid 32548] write(4, "OPTION allow-pinentry-notify", 28) = 28
[pid 32548] read(4, "ERR 67108949 No pinentry <GPG Ag"..., 1002) = 37
[pid 32548] write(2, "gpg: signing failed: No pinentry", 32gpg: signing failed: No pinentry) = 32
[pid 32548] write(2, "gpg: signing failed: No pinentry", 32gpg: signing failed: No pinentry) = 32

dannym <at> dayas ~$ which pinentry
/home/dannym/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry
dannym <at> dayas ~$ pinen<TAB>
pinentry         pinentry-curses  pinentry-gtk-2   pinentry-tty
dannym <at> dayas ~$ pinentry
OK Pleased to meet you

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