Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:10:23 +0200 From: Karol Kwiatkowski <karol.kwiat@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GnuPG, pinentry, and Qt Message-ID: <46B1C9AF.404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070802102407.GA90696@demeter.hydra> References: <20070802083535.GA89509@demeter.hydra> <20070802102407.GA90696@demeter.hydra>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig43C26E912B3394D07C90899F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:35:35AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: >> So I tried installing GnuPG on a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system. It doesn= 't >> work without pinentry installed. >> >> Okay, I can handle that. No big deal. Apparently GnuPG 2.x requires = a >> separate utility for password handling now. No big deal. I run >> portinstall pinentry. >> >> At this point, I notice something very, very odd: pinentry won't insta= ll >> because of a problem with Qt. >> >> Why the heck would GnuPG ultimately depend on Qt in any way? >=20 > Okay . . . so I should have looked a little harder at the pinentry port= s > available before sending this email to the list. Apparently there are > three different versions. I'm still curious about a couple of things, > though: >=20 > 1. Why is Qt the default for the nonspecific security/pinentry port? > 2. Why start a separate, external application for getting the > passphrase at all? >=20 I'm not sure, but here's output from my system (default config): $ cd /usr/ports/security/gnupg $ make pretty-print-run-depends-list pretty-print-build-depends-list This port requires package(s) "curl-7.16.1_1 dirmngr-0.9.7_2 gettext-0.16.1_3 libgcrypt-1.2.4_1 libgpg-error-1.5 libiconv-1.9.2_2 libksba-1.0.1_1 openldap- client-2.3.37 pth-2.0.7" to run. This port requires package(s) "curl-7.16.1_1 gettext-0.16.1_3 gmake-3.81_2 libassuan-1.0.1 libgcrypt-1.2.4_1 libgpg-error-1.5 libiconv-1.9.2_2 libksba-1.0.1_1 openldap-client-2.3.37 pth-2.0.7" to bui= ld. No pinentry dependency, no such port installed, too: $ pkg_info -IX "gnupg|pinentry" gnupg-1.4.7_1 The GNU Privacy Guard gnupg-2.0.4 The GNU Privacy Guard HTH, Karol --=20 Karol Kwiatkowski <karol.kwiat at gmail dot com> OpenPGP 0x06E09309 --------------enig43C26E912B3394D07C90899F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRrHJuQhgT0HIecD5AQiQOggAnfjrZlaVVbvyrvH38HdQ9G0oL73tdYVF AroELvgIN6gblPMrS9DeMc9uPIO2XbKT+OuaDvcptrIHrvB/KtFzCZxa8rohvFRP IBAaDNnnPDQ8Q6DTDGp60KWK0Hu7k6N+WHRNpJOi7kkaUufvUJQPNAzfFIKCG2sv qD5G2bJTtSP28tdziAPUHdGC9Lz3tSyYcMY90T3fM6KYnbwqsCAB1hI/d0rB7O0P dT6R4ZE9EA2OMjCjhjFDLt3O6KgZ9X4FKUBcgeVRxF4C6mb6It2hEN5g3MfBjHdE 2kCWydtC3uYtey1tkPZW2KDQeQ18lopsUvNs9wiRKP6erPJcix5j5g== =Rs9i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig43C26E912B3394D07C90899F--
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