Okay, I've finally taken the time to track down the issue. Ultimately I've fallen victim to over-Googling. I was trying to apply too many conflicting advices to my situation. As it turns out, I can get gpg-agent to work on my Mac if I ignore Benjamin Donnachie's "pinentry-mac.app", and if I edit his "start gpg-agent" apple script. I will not have the gpg-agent "primed" with my key's passphrase until I launch a terminal the first time (and my .bashrc tries to eval the result of `gpg -d .bash_private.gpg` into the shell env), but that's fine for now. Ultimately I'd like to find a method of using the apple keychain to unlock my gpg keys for the gpg-agent.
On 9/26/07, Boey Maun Suang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > I have setup dozens of Linux and FreeBSD machines with gpg-agent. > > But, doing it on a Mac seems to be voodoo at best. I think that > > every howto and thread that Google turns up is missing some > > extremely important prerequisites. Quite honestly, I feel like I > > am trashing my system with all the different installers I have > > ran. Can someone please just reply to this and encourage me that > > it is possible? > > I assume that you're having trouble with the MacPorts gpg-agent port, > which I currently maintain, though I'm no expert in using it. Can > you provide details of the problems that you are having with > installing or running it, and what you would ordinarily expect to do > to get it working on Linux and FreeBSD? > > Kind regards, > > > Maun Suang > > -- > Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) > Email: boeyms at macports dot org > > > > -- .!# RichardBronosky #!. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
