Hello Werner, many thanks for your involvement in this discussion. GPG 2.1 took big steps towards becoming a truly portable application.
On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:10:21 +0200, Werner Koch <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 18:20, [email protected] said: > >> set GNUPGHOME=. > >Don't use a relative path for GNUPGHOME unless you use gnupg 2.1. > >Regarding those portable applications: > > On Windows systems it is possible to install GnuPG as a portable > application. In this case only this command line option is > considered, all other ways to set a home directory are ignored. > > To install GnuPG as a portable application under Windows, create an > empty file name 'gpgconf.ctl' in the same directory as the tool > 'gpgconf.exe'. The root of the installation is than that > directory; or, if 'gpgconf.exe' has been installed directly below a > directory named 'bin', its parent directory. You also need to make > sure that the following directories exist and are writable: > 'ROOT/home' for the GnuPG home and 'ROOT/usr/local/var/cache/gnupg' > for internal cache files. May I ask how that translates into the Windows world? Is it a way to get rid of the ...\AppData\Roaming\gnupg folder? I have all executables in my gpg main folder and call gpg.exe exclusively from that directory with a '--homedir "...\gpg"' parameter, while that gnupg folder still gets created. Thanks Caro _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
