[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#568375: Bug#568375: gnupg-agent: does not work with `git tag -s`

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:22:32AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Thu 2017-02-23 10:55:24 -0500, Michal Hocko <mstsxfx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 06:47:15PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > [...]
> >> If this report is strictly about the yubikey smartcard, we should
> >> reassign it to scdaemon.  Does "git tag -S" work for you when you are
> >> *not* using a smartcard?
> >
> > Well I am not using any smartcards. I just have my private keyring on an
> > USB flash disk and 
> > ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg -> /mnt/security/.gnupg/secring.gpg
> >
> > but that shouldn't matter, right?
> 
> gpg 2.1 does not store or use secret keys in the same way as 1.4.  In
> particular, secring.gpg is no longer used, and secret key material is
> stored in ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/
> 
> if you want to continue to use your USB flash disk, i recommend (when
> the USB disk is inserted and mounted):
> 
>   if [ -d ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d ]; then
>      mv ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d /mnt/security/.gnupg/
>   else
>      mkdir -m 0700 /mnt/security/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d
>   fi
>   ln -s /mnt/security/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d
>   if [ -L ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg ]; thne
>      rm ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg
>   fi
>   gpg --batch --import < /mnt/security/.gnupg/secring.gpg
> 
> Once this is done and you're sure you have access to the secret keys you
> want, you can also delete /mnt/security/.gnupg/secring.gpg.
> 
> hope this helps,

unfortunatelly nope. The same problem I saw the last time. I get a
password prompt and then gpg agent hogs one CPU, so basically the same
situation I have described earlier (email 12 Jan 2017 - message-id
20170112105934.GA16651 at dhcp22.suse.cz).
-- 
Michal Hocko