[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#611901: gnupg: Can't create lock on readonly filesystem

[Werner Koch]

On Thu,  3 Feb 2011 14:17, mh+reportbug at glandium.org said:

> Considering the filesystem is readonly there is no need for a lock file,
> especially when all that is asked is --list-keys or --fingerprint.
> Considering the error (EROFS) is very distinguishable from other
> readonly or failure cases, gpg could detect it and still act without a

Consider the case that the file system is mount read-only by one system
but read-write by another one.  Ooops.

Better use --never-lock explicitly.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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