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am trying to use a model called JULES which makes use of GPG Agent to cache Subversion passwords. My colleague Toby at UKCEH uses this system and it works fine using GPGvn</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px">2.0.22,
but apparently, this version of GPG reached its end of life in 2017 according to<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.gnupg.org/download/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px">https://www.gnupg.org/download/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px"><span> </span>and
is no longer supported (the current version is 2.3.7). I have installed v2.2.4 of GPG but I find that I cannot cache my password through Subversion (see screenshot).</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px">Looking online,<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;background-color:white">there seems
to be a problem with versions after v2.1.11 (according to<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/819184/gpg-agent-not-working-since-16-04-upgrade" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px">https://askubuntu.com/questions/819184/gpg-agent-not-working-since-16-04-upgrade</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;background-color:white"><span> </span>)
because (as far as I understand it) GPG no longer sets the environment variable $GPG_AGENT_INFO and therefore this system of caching passwords no longer works.</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;background-color:white">MY QUESTION: is there any way of changing the settings on GPGv2.2.4 to allow this environment variable to be set and therefore allow
passwords to be cached as in earlier versions?</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;background-color:white">Thank you</span></span></div>
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