Re: Install gpg2 as gpg

[ng0]

On 2016-06-14(09:52:46AM+0200), Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:07:08PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 08:24:23PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > > What if we patched gpg-1 to not colide with gpg-2?
> > >
> > > For example, move gpg and gpgv and man pages of them
> > > for gpg-1 to something which has -1 in its name.
> > > On the other hand this would have to be consistent and be followed
> > > straigth to not colide again. I'm not sure if this
> > > approach will work out in the long run.
> >
> > Unless this is a configuration option supported by upstream GnuPG, I
> > don't want to do that. For the same reason, my patch does not affect
> > gnupg-2.0.

The -as-gnupg2 option got me for a moment, I forgot that this is gnupg-1.

>
> I agree with this argument - one of our principles is to mess as little
> as possible with upstream packages. In this case, since there is a special
> configuration option for gnupg-2, we may use it, but then we would have
> to pay the price that both gnupg-1 (or gnupg-2.0) and gnupg-2.1 could not
> be installed together any more. Maybe it would then be consistent to drop
> gnupg-2.0 from the distribution.

gnupg-2.0 and gnupg-2.1 are currently individual packages which can be
installed side by side in guix?

> Finally I managed to make gnupg-2.1 work together with mutt, but it was
> not completely straightforward... So we should document the change if we
> make it.

Yes, there have been some changes, but they are documented upstream.
When this is desired for Guix, I can see if I can recall what I did
in 2015 where it went from working to broken to almost working and
now completely functional with GnuPG2.1.x

I'd be curious if it just works when I can move to GuixSD again with
libgcrypt-1.7 merged.

> By the way, should we maybe make pinentry a propagated input of gnupg-2.1?
> If I understand correctly, gnupg-2.1 will not work without it (and mixing
> pinentry from Debian with gnupg-2.1 from Guix was one of the reasons for
> gnupg not working at first).
>
> Andreas
>
>

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