Re: [gentoo-dev] can't gpg sign with repoman, but can with git

[Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>]

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On 07/20/2017 10:16 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> What I have noticed with regards to git though, but not had time to
> debug is that it seems to do something odd with regards to communicating
> with the agent to begin with, and possibly spawns an own agent, at least
> sufficiently confusing that for smartcard use it fail to access the card
> due to locking and needing to re-insert the card.. with similar
> mechanism to use it outside of git context again afterwards.

And looking into this, the issue is actually a lack of sanitation of the
--homedir parameter for gpg-agent, so "$HOME/.gnupg" and "$HOME/.gnupg/"
is treated as separate directories and as such two separate agents are
started... reported upstream... will be nice to get rid of _that_ annoyance.

-- 
Kristian Fiskerstrand
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