Guillermo Navarro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> fist of all I am new to fink (and osx in general) and my question may
> be too simple (or inappropriate), but I haven't found any information
> in the web or documentation with respect to this.
>
> I just installed the gnupg2 package with fink and, once installed,
> when I try to generate a new key I get the error:
>
> gpg-agent[56576]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec
> `/sw/bin/pinentry': No such file or directory'
> gpg-agent[56576]: can't connect to the PIN entry module: IPC connect call 
> failed
> gpg-agent[56576]: command get_passphrase failed: No pinentry
> gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry
> gpg: Key generation cancelled.
>
> Actually, I think the error will happen whenever gpg2 needs to ask for
> a passphrasse.
>
> The problem is solved by installing the package "pinentry" (or I guess
> a similar one such as pinentry-gtk).
>
> I am not sure if this should be reported as a bug in the dependencies
> of gnupg2 (which does not install pinentry by default) or not. Or if
> it has already being reported?
>
> Also, I am not sure how to report bugs to fink packages, is there a
> standard way of doing it?. Or these kind of bugs should not be
> reported?
>
>
> regards,
>
> guille
>
> PD: I'm using OSX 10.5 with fink version 0.27.9 compiled from source,
> and installed gnupg2 version 2.0.7-2
>
>   
After looking at the error message more carefully, I'm not 100% sure
whether it's gnupg2 or gpg-agent that needs the dependency on pinentry. 
Fortunately they both have the same maintainer, who I'll cc.

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