Guillermo Navarro wrote: > Hello, > > fist of all I am new to fink (and osx in general) and my question may > be too simple (or inappropriate), but I haven't found any information > in the web or documentation with respect to this. > > I just installed the gnupg2 package with fink and, once installed, > when I try to generate a new key I get the error: > > gpg-agent[56576]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec > `/sw/bin/pinentry': No such file or directory' > gpg-agent[56576]: can't connect to the PIN entry module: IPC connect call > failed > gpg-agent[56576]: command get_passphrase failed: No pinentry > gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry > gpg: Key generation cancelled. > > Actually, I think the error will happen whenever gpg2 needs to ask for > a passphrasse. > > The problem is solved by installing the package "pinentry" (or I guess > a similar one such as pinentry-gtk). > > I am not sure if this should be reported as a bug in the dependencies > of gnupg2 (which does not install pinentry by default) or not. Or if > it has already being reported? > > Also, I am not sure how to report bugs to fink packages, is there a > standard way of doing it?. Or these kind of bugs should not be > reported? > > > regards, > > guille > > PD: I'm using OSX 10.5 with fink version 0.27.9 compiled from source, > and installed gnupg2 version 2.0.7-2 > > After looking at the error message more carefully, I'm not 100% sure whether it's gnupg2 or gpg-agent that needs the dependency on pinentry. Fortunately they both have the same maintainer, who I'll cc.
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