gpgme: need *both* gnupg and gnupg2?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 4 17:16:41 CET 2008


Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> At Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:03:18 -0600,
> Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>>> gpgme seems to need both gnupg(1) (for OpenPGP support) and gnupg(2) (for
>>> CMS support), according to the README.
>>>
>>> Can gpg2 be used instead for gpgme's OpenPGP support (using something
>>> like ./configure --with-gpg=/usr/bin/gpg2) to reduce it's external
>>> dependencies to just gnupg2?
>>>
>>> I naively tried this, and some of the tests performed by 'make check' now
>>> fail.
>> Followup, it was part of the regular build (not just 'make check') that
>> failed, in tests/gpg:
>> $(GPG) --homedir . --allow-secret-key-import
>> since gpg2 doesn't support --allow-secret-key-import
> 
> Hu?  Which version of gpg2, and what was the error message?

gnupg-2.0.8,

/usr/bin/gpg2 --homedir . --allow-secret-key-import \
                 --import Alpha/Secret.gpg Zulu/Secret.gpg
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `.'
gpg: importing secret keys not allowed
gpg: importing secret keys not allowed
gpg: Total number processed: 2
gpg:       secret keys read: 2
make[3]: *** [pubring.gpg] Error 2

-- Rex




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