Re: [PATCH 2/2] test: use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] test: use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available

Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:17:47 -0500

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor


On Tue 2017-02-14 16:42:39 -0500, David Bremner wrote:
> This enables the shortened socket pathes in /run or equivalent. The
> explicit call to gpgconf is needed for nonstandard GNUPGHOME settings.

For the current GnuPG 2.1.18, this pair of patches looks reasonable to
me, and it should indeed solve builds in deeply-nested paths.

That said, i currently consider this a workaround to a bug that should
really be fixed in GnuPG itself, as i noted on gnupg-users:

  https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2017-February/057692.html
  id:87k28rl6o8.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net

I'd love to not see this kind of workaround cruft pile up, because it
tends to cause problems in the future.  is there a way that we can mark
this sort of thing for fairly prompt removal once it's fixed upstream?

     --dkg
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