Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:39:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get pine-pgp-filters and pinentry-curses to work together Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.999.0708141932580.80694@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20070814214727.P47947@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20070814214727.P47947@asterix.home.rakhesh.com>
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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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