Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:31:00 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get pine-pgp-filters and pinentry-curses to work together Message-ID: <20070815081808.C54184@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.999.0708141932580.80694@qbhto.arg> References: <20070814214727.P47947@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> <alpine.BSF.0.999.0708141932580.80694@qbhto.arg>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: >> 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. Now that you mention, yeah, it does! Funny I missed it out. Since it mentions pinentry there, that's fine, no need to pull it in as a dependency. My bad. :) >> 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. :) I know you subscribe to this list. Have seen a lot of your postings here, that's why I didn't copy you specifically. By posting to the list there'd be some info on this by way of archives and I'd get a reply from you anyways. :) BTW, I ask coz I don't know: as a matter of etiquette, is it a good idea to cc the author/ maintainer of the port even if he/ she is subscribed to the list? >> 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 ... Ok, so it is something like what I thought. >> 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. Hmm, ok. Thank you, Rakhesh
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