"invalid option: --agent-program"

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Oct 30 23:57:47 CET 2015


On Sat 2015-10-31 00:54:07 +0900, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> I'm using gnupg-agent 2.0.26-6 (jessie) and in the manual page for
> gpg-connect-agent it says:
>
> 	  --agent-program file
> 	    Specify the agent program to be started if none is running.
>
> But when I try it:
>
> 	$ gpg-connect-agent --agent-program gpg-agent
> 	gpg-connect-agent: invalid option "--agent-program"
 [...]
> Is this a documentation issue or an implementation issue? ;-)

Looks like it's a documentation issue to me.  this option is present in
2.1.9-2.  There are other bugs with the 2.0.x documentation, i think,
where features from the 2.1.x branch slipped into the 2.0 docs.

We're in the process of moving off of the 2.0.x branch to the 2.1.x
branch in unstable, and this is a minor documentation bug, so it's
unlikely to be fixed in the jessie (stable) release.

sorry about this, 

        --dkg



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