Re: Side-By-Side Installation: Gpg4win and gnuPG
Hi, On Sunday 10 July 2016 00:57:51 Kob S wrote: > Running C:\gnupg2.1.13\gpg --expert --full-gen-key > ... > I suspect that gnuPG is looking at the same \AppData\Roaming\gnupg > directory that is being used by gpg4win. If that is the case, is there a > way to force gnuPG to use a different directory? I could not find any > config file that would let me do that. > > Thanks for any help, Although using the same homedir should not hurt much, gnupg-2.1 will migrate your secret keys to a new format but leave the files in a way that gnupg-2.0 can still read them. But there will be problems with the gnupg-agent as gnupg needs the same version of the agent that the program belongs to. To avoid that you should specify --homedir c:\testhome or something on the commandline to 2.1 calls. Then it will use that as a different homedir. e.g.: gpg --homedir c:\testhome --expert --full-gen-key would generate you a key in c:\testhome Regards, Andre -- Andre Heinecke | ++49-541-335083-262 | http://www.intevation.de/ Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Side-By-Side Installation: Gpg4win and gnuPG
>To avoid that you should specify --homedir c:\testhome or something on the >commandline to 2.1 calls. Then it will use that as a different homedir. >e.g.: gpg --homedir c:\testhome --expert --full-gen-key This works now like a charm. Thanks, Rimma ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Side-By-Side Installation: Gpg4win and gnuPG
Hello, I am using gpg4win V. 2.3.2 on a WIN7 machine, but I want to test the gnuPG 2.1.13 on the same machine, using the CLI, without interfering with the existing gpg4win installation. I downloaded and expanded the gnuPG 2.1.13 Windows CLI archive into a new directory, and made sure to fully exit gpg4win. Running C:\gnupg2.1.13\gpg --expert --full-gen-key I got the following message: "gpg: starting migration from earlier GnuPG versions" and an attempt to connect by an agent using IPC to a socket on the local machine - which I blocked by my firewall to avoid messing up my existing gpg4win installation. I suspect that gnuPG is looking at the same \AppData\Roaming\gnupg directory that is being used by gpg4win. If that is the case, is there a way to force gnuPG to use a different directory? I could not find any config file that would let me do that. Thanks for any help, Rimma ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
