Package: gnupg-agent Version: 2.0.13-1 Severity: wishlist I found it hard going to start up a single instance of the gpg-agent daemon, as recommended in the man page not to run multiple instances.
It'd be good there was an option like --write-env-file, but writing the file only if it doesn't already contain a running daemon (info which reaches a running daemon, that is). No doubt there'd be some locking in case there's two such "start if not already running" going on at the same time. It'd also be good if such a startup didn't actually communicate with the running instance, just check its socket isn't an EPIPE or something like that, so it doesn't slow down your login from .bashrc or whatever. Better still would be not to actually start a daemon at all until a program wants to do some signing. Maybe a "GPG_AGENT_FILE" could set a place to read/write for a "start if not already running" on-demand. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gnupg-agent depends on: ii libc6 2.10.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcrypt11 1.4.4-5 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error values an ii libpth20 2.0.7-14 The GNU Portable Threads ii libreadline5 5.2-6 GNU readline and history libraries ii pinentry-curses [pinentry] 0.7.6-1+b1 curses-based PIN or pass-phrase en ii pinentry-gtk2 [pinentry] 0.7.6-1+b1 GTK+-2-based PIN or pass-phrase en Versions of packages gnupg-agent recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep gnupg-agent suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
