Re: svn not using gpg-agent

Hello James,

Two years later...

27.10.2016 05:24, James McCoy wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 06:18:04PM +0200, Michael Thayer wrote:
>> I suspect this is a user problem somewhere, but since I upgraded to Ubuntu
>> 16.10 (Subversion 1.9.4 versus 1.9.3 in 16.04) svn has stopped using
>> GPG-Agent and started using GNOME Keyring to store my password.
>
> In Ubuntu 16.10, gnupg changed from the 1.4.x series to the 2.x series.
> With that, gpg-agent now will start on-demand when needed, whereas with
> the old gnupg it needed to be manually started.
>
> Svn currently detects whether it can use gpg-agent by looking for the
> UNIX socket that's used to communicate with the agent. It finds this
> either through the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable or looking for
> ~/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent socket. It sounds like neither of those exist in
> your setup.
>
> $GPG_AGENT_INFO should be defined for your X session by
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent, and there are also some hints in the
> file about how to ensure the agent gets started.
>
> While the above isn't a solution, hopefully it's enough information to
> figure out where the disconnect is.

Thank you! It seems like that script isn't getting executed, possibly
due to the Wayland session. If I source it manually things work again.

Regards
Michael

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