On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
Hi there!
I installed mail/pine and security/gnupg from ports. While trying to use
gnupg, whenever it needed to ask me for the passphrase, I ran into errors
such as the below:
gpg-agent[86284]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec
`/usr/local/bin/pinentry': No such file or directory'
The pkg-message for gnupg clearly says that you need to have a pinentry
program. Glad you figured that bit out.
--8<-- Two questions here:
1) Why isn't security/pinentry pulled in as a dependency of security/gnupg?
Shouldn't that have been the "obvious" thing to do? Or is it possible to
bypass pinentry somehow?
There are 4 different versions of pinentry, trying to determine what
should be the default would be difficult at best.
2) If I do a "make install" in security/pinentry, it straight away moves onto
compiling Qt etc (as dependencies for security/pinentry-qt I suppose).
Shouldn't it rather ask me what I want and then accordingly install one of
the pinentry-* ports?
If you want pinentry-curses, that's the port you should use.
Later, I installed pine-pgp-filters.
Always glad to have a new user, but you might have thought to cc this
message to the author/maintainer of that port. :)
Now, whenever I send a mail and want to sign/ encrypt it and gnupg has
to ask me for the passphrase, it messes my screen up! I get error
messages like these:
Based on what Pine gives me to work with, I don't see any way that I could
pass control of the terminal to a third application. I use gnupg2 with the
gtk pinentry program with pine and the filters just fine, but if you can't
do X, then ...
For now the only workaround I've come up with is to install security/gnupg1.
That does not require pinentry and so it works well with pine-pgp-filters.
I think that's your only option.
hope this helps,
Doug
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