gnupg & pinentry

[Chris H]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:23:38 +0300 (MSK) Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru>
wrote

> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Chris H wrote:
> 
> > > >It looks as though it would be feasible to write an extremely
> > > >lightweight pinentry-compatible program to depend on so we can kill the
> > > >dependency bloat and have a simple shell-based password entry option.
> > > >
> > > >Anyone up for a weekend challenge? :-)
> > > 
> > > There has been another thread on this mailing list discussing making the 
> > > port honour the WITHOUT_X11 and OPTIONS_UNSET+=X11 options from 
> > > make.conf which would make it only depend on security/pinentry-curses 
> > > instead of security/pinentry. This seems like a good solution to me. It 
> > > would mean if one of those options is set it will only drag in a single 
> > > dependancy rather than all the X11 libraries and GTK.
> > A quick look @ the security/pinentry Makefile, indicates that the
> > request for this type of modification is trivial. It simply requires
> > reversing the (PORT_)OPTIONS logic -- this port could completed in
> > under 5 minutes. So unless instructed otherwise, I'll go ahead with
> > this.
> > One last question; pinentry-console, or pinentry-nox?
> 
> already defined: pinentry-curses ;)
Right you are, Dmitry. :)
> 
> (see side thread)
> 
> Patch I snet previoursy is syntax incorrect, the following seems to be more 
> useful:
> 
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- Makefile    (revision 375271)
> +++ Makefile    (working copy)
> @@ -22,7 +22,11 @@
>                 libksba.so:${PORTSDIR}/security/libksba \
>                 libnpth.so:${PORTSDIR}/devel/npth
>  BUILD_DEPENDS= libgpg-error>=1.11:${PORTSDIR}/security/libgpg-error
> +.if defined(WITHOUT_X11) || !empty(OPTIONS_UNSET:MX11)
> +RUN_DEPENDS=   pinentry>0:${PORTSDIR}/security/pinentry-curses
> +.else
>  RUN_DEPENDS=   pinentry>0:${PORTSDIR}/security/pinentry
> +.endif
> 
>  GNU_CONFIGURE= YES
>  USES=          gmake iconv tar:bzip2

Yes, I had a closer look at the code last night, and the only
possible addition I could find. Was possibly adding:
--disable-fallback-curses
to the -ncurses slave port. But in the end, what would be gained?
I think your patch above does it all.

Thanks for your time, and consideration, Dmitry, and
have a Merry Christmas!

--Chris

> 
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
> [ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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