Re: Problem signing a tag
- From
Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
- Date
- Nov 4, 2009, 18:47 UTC
- Message-ID
- <200911040947.50226.joshua@eeinternet.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <4AF18F7A.2000904@drmicha.warpmail.net>
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Michael J Gruber said something like:
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> > gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use > > error: gpg failed to sign the tag > > error: unable to sign the tag > > $ echo $? > > 128 > > > > And when I sign at the prompt: > > > > $ gpg -sa > > > > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for > > user: "Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@azariah.com>" > > 1024-bit DSA key, ID 14EA086E, created 2009-08-09 > > > > gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use > > Blah blah blah blah > > Blah blah blah blah > > $ echo $? > > 2 > > [...] > > I assume you don't want to use gpg-agent, that should be the easy way > out.
Well, I could, but I just haven't set it up. :)
> If that helps you can put "--no-use-agent" in your gpg config.
I commented out use-agent in the config. That worked. THANKS!
> 2 is a non-fatal error, 128 a fatal one, btw.
Well, the 2 was from running gpg alone, and 128 was from git erroring out. According to the gpg docs:
"The program returns 0 if everything was fine, 1 if at least a signature was bad, and other error codes for fatal errors."
So, the docs consider 2 a fatal error, even though it appears it isn't. It seems that http://github.com/git/git/blob/a6dbf8814f433a7fbfa9cde6333c98019f6db1e4/builtin-tag.c#L202 needs to be patched to something along the lines of:
rv = finish_command(&gpg) if ((rv && rv !=2) || !len || len < 0)
Probably digging in to the gpg source code to figure out what errors are and aren't fatal would be in order.
Thanks again for your help! Glad to know what I needed to do to sign my tags!
j
-- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x14EA086E