[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#645426: gpg --homedir /nonexistent --gen-key goes through the entire key generation process, then errors out

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2025-04-18 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 06:41:34PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On 2011-10-15 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>>> Package: gnupg
>>> Version: 1.4.11-3
>>> Severity: normal

>>> For a quick test, I needed to generate a temporary GPG key.  I started
>>> with "gpg --homedir /tmp/gpg-temp --gen-key".  This walked me all the
>>> way through the key generation process, including lengthy entropy
>>> collection, before erroring out because the directory didn't exist (I'd
>>> expected gpg to create it):
>> [...]
 
>> This was marked wontfix and closed upstream:
[...]
> Clarifying something here: while I would love to have seen gpg *create*
> the directory, the most important part of the bug here is "detect early
> that it doesn't exist, and error out before going through the whole
> interactive process".

Yes, that is how I read your report, it really is not nice.

I have added a comment on the upstream bts to emphasize this, perhaps it
helps.

cu Andreas
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