gpa 0.6.1 hangs on Linux/Powermac

[Albrecht Dreß]

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Am 19.06.03 20:24 schrieb(en) Miguel Coca:
> GPA uses the same programs as GnuPG for retrieving keys from
> keyservers (the gpgkeys_* programs). However, in GnuPG 1.2.x, support
> for HKP keyservers is built into gpg and the ldap keyserver plugin is
> only built if the appropiate libraries are available. So there is no
> guarantee that they will be installed.
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> You can install the hkp plugin manually from the GnuPG source code.
> Just type "make gpgkeys_hkp" in the keyserver directory and copy that
> to wherever gpa is looking for it (you can see the path in gpadefs.h
> in the gpa source root, it's the GPA_KEYSERVER_HELPERS_DIR define).

I see... I installed the hkp helper manually, and made a symlink from=20
GPA_KEYSERVER_HELPERS_DIR (in the /opt/gnome-2.2 tree for me) to the gnupg=
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stuff (which lives in /usr). Now I can at least launch the helper, but I=20
could not (yet) successfully retreive a key, although running gpg directly=
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works (I tried wwwkeys.pgp.net bote times). I'll have to play with it a=20
little more, I guess... Thanks!

May I make some suggestions at this point?

IMHO it would be great if there was a config option to specify the helper=
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dir, as I guess my method of installation (Gnome 1 in /usr, plus /opt/
gnome-2 and /opt/gnome-2.2 for gnome 2.0/2.2) is not too strage.

The import widget seems to "forget" the last entry of the key server=20
(hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net), which is not so comfortable. I could not find any=
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gconf stuff to fix that.

An other point: I hacked gnupg support for the mail user agent balsa (see=
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http://balsa.gnome.org). Currently, if it receives a mail with an unknown=
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key, it pops up a dialog where the user can choose if (s)he wants to run=20
gpg to retreive the key or not. This simply runs gpg --recv-keys in a=20
shell which is obviously not the best solution. In an ideal world, gpa (or=
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seahorse or some other app) would register as a helper app (with bonobo?),=
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so balsa could just ask it through bonobo to pop up and present the ui for=
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retreiving the key. Do you plan to implement such a functionality, or is=20
it possible to register gpa as a helper app for a pgp key mime type?

Thanks again,

	Albrecht.

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