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Signing git commits with PGP fails

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From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 41941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41941: Signing git commits with PGP fails
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:42:21 +0200

On 19.06.20 18:17, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:43:10PM +0200, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
>> I have pinentry installed from the config.scm, but it's still
>> [...]
>> gpg: signing failed: No pinentry
>
> I think the root of the problem is that GPG can't find pinentry.
>
> With Guix, it should work automatically if you install GPG and a
> pinentry to your user's profile. [0]
>
> When installed via config.scm, you should set "pinentry-program" with
> the right path, either on gpg-agent's command line or in
> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf.
>
> [0] See 'gnu/packages/patches/gnupg-default-pinentry.patch' of commit
> e5b44b06b3f, which fixed a longstanding UX bug

A already tried that but had a typo
So
```
pinentry-program /run/current-system/profile/bin/pinentry
``` in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

I wonder if we can do better here?

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