On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:24:48AM +0200, Markus Järvinen wrote: > Package: gnupg > Version: 1.4.5-2 > Severity: normal > > If I understand correctly, "gpg --no-options" is supposed to ignore > ~/.gnupg completely. However I get the following errors when using it: > > $ echo foo | gpg -c --no-options >/dev/null > gpg: keyblock resource `/home/m/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file open error > gpg: can't create `/home/m/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory > $ echo $? > 2
No, --no-options just ignores the gpg.conf file. Other things in ~/.gnupg (keyrings, random_seed), are still used. Also, if you don't have a ~/.gnupg, --no-options prevents automatically creating one (which may be what happened in the example above). David
