Re: gpg "options" file now deprecated

[email protected] wrote on Jul 29, 2004:

>Just a small issue. gnupg now looks for the default config file gpg.conf
>and not options as before, but exmh still looks for the latter:

More precisely, it currently looks for both, but prefers gpg.conf
if it is present.

>pgpBase.tcl:set pgp(gpg,configFile) "$pgp(gpg,defaultPath)/options"

>I've symlinked options -> gpg.conf but of course gpg complains now:

>gpg: NOTE: old default options file `/home/joel/.gnupg/options' ignored

I reverted to using "options" to avoid that complaint.   It is still
accepted by gnupg.

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I'm not sure what's the best solution.  Support for "options" is
needed for backward compatibility.  Some people might be using older
gnupg versions.

 -NWR