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Re: Missing pinentry-emacs for gpg-agent?


From: Alex Kost
Subject: Re: Missing pinentry-emacs for gpg-agent?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:45:29 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Ludovic Courtès (2018-03-27 11:53 +0200) wrote:

> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Somewhat surprisingly, pinentry-emacs does not seem to be in the repo.
>> Is it intentional?  I'd love to have it back.
>
> I didn’t know its existence.  :-)
>
> Please do submit a package!
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html
>
>> On a related topic, is it possible to share a gpg-agent.conf between a
>> Guix-based system and another system?
>> What I mean here is that the following line in gpg-agent.conf:
>>
>>      pinentry-program /home/ambrevar/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry
>>
>> won't work on other systems (/usr/bin/pinentry on other systems is
>> somewhat more universal, but hey...).
>
> I can’t think of any solution to that problem… apart from installing
> Guix on the other systems.  :-)

I use another solution: I just run "gpg-agent" with "--pinentry-program"
option (instead of adding "pinentry-program ..." line to the conf-file).

-- 
Alex



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