Re: thunderbird needs graphical pinentry to use external gnupg for encrypting emails

On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 16:23 +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 01:36 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > On 11/19/24 22:59, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> > 
> > > > I do really sign my BLFS commits with GPG but your (and my) posts to
> > > > blfs-dev are not signed.  So I can logically consider the git use case
> > > > more important here (while IMO both Git page and Thunderbird page are a
> > > > wrong location).
> > > 
> > > I've fixed Git with:
> > > 
> > > commit 7c9e274a7ac1a97315bce625af2be40ef7afb1c3
> > > Author: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
> > > Date:   Wed Nov 20 12:57:16 2024 +0800
> > > 
> > >      profile: Set GPG_TTY for GnuPG
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/postlfs/config/profile.xml b/postlfs/config/profile.xml
> > > index 935d9308f9..0c6b058323 100644
> > > --- a/postlfs/config/profile.xml
> > > +++ b/postlfs/config/profile.xml
> > > @@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ export XDG_DATA_DIRS=${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/share}
> > >   export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:-/etc/xdg}
> > >   export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp/xdg-$USER}
> > >   
> > > +# GnuPG wants this or it'll fail with pinentry-curses under some
> > > +# circumstances (for example signing a Git commit)
> > > +tty -s &amp;&amp; export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
> > > +
> > >   # Set up a red prompt for root and a green one for users.
> > >   NORMAL="\[\e[0m\]"
> > >   RED="\[\e[1;31m\]"
> > > 
> > > But obviously it doesn't help GUI apps.
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is good for /etc/profile when using a terminal emulator in a 
> > graphical desktop environment.  I use konsole with multiple instances and tabs.
> > When creating a new instance or a new tab, /etc/profile is not sourced, only 
> > $HOME/.bashrc.
> 
> Oops I do intend to add it to /etc/bashrc.  But our bashrc and
> bash_profile are too similar so I made the change at a wrong location
> :(.
> 
> But then actually we'll need it in *both* bash_profile and bashrc or it
> won't work in a login shell.  AFAIK most other distros sources bashrc in
> bash_profile.  Should we do the same?
> 
> I'll revert the change for now and do experiments in a new branch.

Oh I just saw we already have

if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ] ; then
  source $HOME/.bashrc
fi

in our .bash_profile.  Thus simply adding the line to /etc/bashrc will
be correct.

P.S. aliasing git is not a good solution, as other things using gpg in a
similar way (hg?) will still fail.


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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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