GNU bug report logs - #36784
GnuPG lacks a default pinentry program

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>

Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:27:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 24076, 37266

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>
To: 36784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:58:30 -0400

Hello Guix!

After brief discussion on IRC channel, I found out that adding
"pinentry-program /home/user/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry-program" to
"gpg-agent.conf" in "/home/user/.gnupg", was able to temproarily
resolve the situation. Thanks to Ricardo (rekado).

I still suggest that there should be a default/fallback option for
this. After reviewing guix repository, I found pinentry, emacs-
pinentry, pinentry-tty, pinentry-qt, pinentry-gtk2, pinentry-gnome3,
pinentry-emacs and pinentry-efl, as available pinentry programs.

Out of all, I suggest pinentry to be set as default/fallback option for
gnupg in guix, as it is platform-independent and provides both CUI
(console) and GUI.

Thank you!

Regards,
RG.
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