GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Dec 26 14:42:26 CET 2011


On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:00, nicholas.cole at gmail.com said:

> It would be very good if there were still a way to completely 'sandox' (for
> want of a better term) an instance of gpg, so that it uses its own key
> rings and trust databases.  I certainly find that for testing purposes it
> is very useful indeed.  On previous versions --homedir does this nicely.

A easy way to do this is:

  GNUPGHOME=/foo/bar gpg-agent --daemon sh

and then do whatever you want in this shell.  If you are done run give
an exit and with a few seconds that gpg-agent will be terminated.  That
is how I do almost all tests.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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