Should Gnome2 meta port include security/pinentry-gtk2?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Jan 17 18:39:53 PST 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 10:52 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:56 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
> >> It seems that without security/pinentry-gtk2, seahorse wouldn't get full
> >> functions, such as adding new names to an existing key.
> >
> > Is this documented anywhere?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> 
> I haven't found it on seahorse's official site. But I got this on
> redhat's bug archives and gentoo's:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474419
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159505

Interesting because I don't see anywhere in the seahorse code where
pinentry is executed.  In fact, seahorse is working just fine for me
without pinentry.  Can you provide a sequence I can test which will
illustrate the problem caused by lacking pinentry-gtk2?

Joe

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