Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] t/lib-gpg.sh: fix GPG keyring import options
Dave Huseby <dhuseby@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> Fix the way GPG keyrings are imported during testing to prevent GPG from
> prompting for approval to change the default config. This appears to have no
> adverse affects on GPG users with "normal" configurations but fixes the
> always-interactive prompting I see with my multi-keyring setup.
I do not quite follow. If you are personally setting "always interactive" somehow, would it be possible to solve the issue more directly by unsetting "always interactive" here? After all, the "${GNUPGHOME}" we see in the test helper library is not referring to your setting but our throw-away setting used only during the test, so...
> v2: fixed the whitespace.
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> Signed-off-by: Dave Huseby <dhuseby@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> t/lib-gpg.sh | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/lib-gpg.sh b/t/lib-gpg.sh
> index 8d28652b72..e72e0554f1 100755
> --- a/t/lib-gpg.sh
> +++ b/t/lib-gpg.sh
> @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ then
> GNUPGHOME="$(pwd)/gpghome" &&
> export GNUPGHOME &&
> (gpgconf --kill gpg-agent >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ) &&
> - gpg --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" 2>/dev/null --import \
> - "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-gpg/keyring.gpg &&
> + gpg --import-options merge-only --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" 2>/dev/null \
> + --import "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-gpg/keyring.gpg &&This patch, without any explanation in the proposed log message, gives an impression that '--import-options merge-only' somehow must be inserted before '--homedir "${GNUPGHOME}"'. If that is truly required, the reason why it must be done before --homedir needs to be explained in the log message. If not, inserting before --homedir is making the patch unnecessarily misleading. If the lines were like so:
- gpg --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" 2>/dev/null --import \ - "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-gpg/keyring.gpg && + gpg --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" 2>/dev/null \ + --import-options merge-only \ + --import "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-gpg/keyring.gpg &&
the patch wouldn't have forced readers wonder why the new option has to come first.
But as I said earlier, there needs a better explanation why it helps to have --import-options to squelch prompts---the cause-effect linkage is a bit too weak to make a convincing case to support why this is the right fix to a problem worth fixing.
Thanks.
> gpg --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" 2>/dev/null --import-ownertrust \
> "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-gpg/ownertrust &&
> gpg --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 \
