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Re: avoid "Set preference list" during make test?

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Aug 29, 2018, 00:31 UTC
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<20180829003100.GD432229@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:53:55PM +0000, Tacitus Aedifex wrote:
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> While running `make test` on the git source tree I keep getting asked:
> 
>  Set preference list to:
>    Cipher: ...
>    Digest: ...
>    etc...
> 
> Is there any way to turn that prompt off so that `make test` completes
> without any keyboard input?

Can you tell us which test is running when you see that? I suspect it might be one of the tests using GnuPG; if so, can you tell us what GnuPG version you're running?

Also, just for completeness, which version are you trying to run the tests on, and is it from the repo or a tarball?

-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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  1. Tacitus AedifexAug 28, 2018
  2. brian m. carlsonAug 29, 2018

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