I've been sitting on all updates that I had planned because of some
instability issues, that I've absolutely tracked down to a bad extension
in TB. Been up for a couple of days without it....and it's not Enigmail
(it was Funambol for those curious), though I'm not at all sure why we
build Enigmail as part of the Thunderbird instructions. The 32-bit
binary works fine (I swapped it out in troubleshooting this issue as it
provided the last message written to the terminal after the hangup).
Is Enigmail there just to provide an example build environment for
extensions? I don't remember that ever being discussed previously, it
should be an extra package IMO. However, if it should be decided to
stay (I don't really have a problem with that other than I think it
should be separate, maybe wiki?), we should at least provide
instructions for starting gpg-agent for those using only gpg2, I fought
with it for a few hours myself. There are certainly prettier examples,
however this one works well for me, though not good for a multi-user
system. I would add a nice multi-user safe one if the group wants to
keep it in the TB instructions (in fact, 'export `cat environment.conf`'
should work, but it didn't at one point or another so I left it this way).
dj [ ~/cert-temp/certs ]$ cat ~/.xprofile
#!/bin/sh
# Setup a Single GPG Agent
# Send TERM any living gpg-agent
/usr/bin/killall -15 gpg-agent
## FIXME - I should probably check that, first, is it mine? 0 || 9,
## but it's behaved nicely so far
# Now, start it up and get it into the environment
gpg-agent --daemon --pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 \
--write-env-file ~/.gnupg/environment.conf
GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat ~/.gnupg/environment.conf | sed 's...@gpg_agent_info=@@'`
export GPG_AGENT_INFO
dj [ ~/cert-temp/certs ]$
-- DJ Lucas
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