From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 16:21:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA111065687 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout0.freenet.de (mout0.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6398FC17 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.13] (helo=3.mx.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #19) id 1KASK9-0001Am-Lx; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:21:53 +0200 Received: from r9b9b.r.pppool.de ([89.54.155.155]:50478 helo=peedub.jennejohn.org) by 3.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #12) id 1KASK9-0001e0-Cw; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:21:53 +0200 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:21:52 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Tobias Rehbein Message-ID: <20080622182152.421046a8@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20080622152556.GA18003@sushi.pseudo.local> References: <20080622152556.GA18003@sushi.pseudo.local> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is security/pinentry not a dependency of security/gnupg X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:21:55 -0000 On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:25:56 +0200 Tobias Rehbein wrote: > Perhaps someone can share his wisdom with me. I just installed security/gnupg > and tried to create a key pair using "gpg --gen-key". After issuing the command > gnupg barfed at me that pinentry could not be started. Now I wonder why pinentry > is not a dependency of gpg as it seems to rely on it? > I wondered that myself when I encountered this error. The only thing to do is install one of the pinentry ports. > Or is there some way to use gpg without pinentry? > If there is I certainly couldn't find it. gnupg alwyas seems to want to see the passphrase. At the most inconvenient times. Its' a real PITA. --- Gary Jennejohn