Re: gpg-agent service doesn't work.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

tusharhero--- via <help-guix@gnu.org> skribis:

>       (service home-gpg-agent-service-type
>                (home-gpg-agent-configuration
>               (pinentry-program
>                  (file-append pinentry-emacs "/bin/pinentry-emacs"))))

[...]

> the output of herd status gpg-agent is,
> herd: error: service 'gpg-agent' could not be found

That’s because the ‘gpg-agent’ Shepherd service is created if and only
if you set (ssh-support? #t).

If you don’t do that, ‘gpg-agent’ is launched on-demand by the various
gpg commands.

HTH!

Ludo’.