On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 10:55, cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com said:
>
> > For historical reasons it is also possible to start dirmngr in
> > a system daemon mode which uses a different directory
> > layout. However, this mode is deprecated and may eventually
> > be removed.
> >
> > Will the daemon be used in this context?
>
> No. That feature as actually been removed recently.
Well, not in unstable/sid:
# dpkg -L dirmngr | grep bin/dirmngr
/usr/bin/dirmngr
/usr/bin/dirmngr-client
The change, I notice, in both sid and strech (compared to jessie) is
that the sysv initscript vanished, but gained a systemd user service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/dirmngr.service in sid. I take that as the
dirnmgr daemon should _not_ be run by the root user. Jessie starts it
per default.
> > What about the scenario when one must go through a very strict
> > proxy to reach the net?
>
> dirmngr has options for this. And well, it can also use tor as the
> universal proxy ;-)
>From what the man pages reveal, the daemon has those options. I can't
see the dirmngr-client does.
So, I may not have to worry about more configuration knobbs when used
through python-apt, do I? How will dirmngr be used by apt then, now
that it is installed as a dependency by python-apt?
Cheers,
--
Cristian
