tags 403833 + upstream forwarded 403833 http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=20070909023755.GN19367%40gambit thanks
Hi there!
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:18:11 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> * Mon 2007-09-03 Eric Dorland <eric AT debian.org> INBOX
>> * Jari Aalto (jari.aalto AT cante.net) wrote:
>>> Please enhance the --write-env-file to append current host to the filename:
>>>
>>> now : $HOME/.gpg-agent-info
>>> proposed: $HOME/.gpg-agent-info-<hostname>
>>>
>>> The motivation is that hosts usually use NFS mounted home directories and
>>> reading the current $HOME/.gpg-agent-info will not work in another host.
Please note that *on Debian* GUI logins get this automatically (better
$GNUPGHOME/.gpg-agent-info-$HOSTNAME) since 1.9.19-2, see #312717:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
gnupg2 (1.9.19-2) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* xsession fixes:
o Added host name to gpg-agent PID file name. Closes: #312717
[...]
-- Matthias Urlichs <sm...@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 22:13:21 +0100
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
For the fact that this is undocumented on Debian see #642021.
>> I'm not sure why you don't just use
>> --write-env-file=$HOME/.gpg-agent-info-$(hostname)? Why force the
>> filename? Or do you mean that the default file (ie when you don't
>> specify --write-env-file explicitly) should have the
>> hostname appended? Because that makes more sense to me.
>
> The bug report concerned about the latter. That the hostname (or better
> FDQN), would be appended by default. When no --write-env-file is not
> specified.
The discussion continued upstream, tag and forward added, using Gmane
instead of the upstream gnupg-devel@ link to be sure we do not loose the
link if upstream changes something. Just FTR:
<http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2007-September/023988.html>
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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