Configuring for use of gpg-agent by default for Gutsy

[Richard A. Johnson]

On Sunday 01 July 2007, Scott Kitterman wrote:
[snip]
| If the string is set and gnupg-agent is not installed, pgp
| signing/encryption still works.  All that happens is gnupg prints a warning
| that no running agent can be found, but it happily asks for a passphrase
| using the normal CLI interface.

I can verify there is no issue having the agent set in gpg.conf and not having 
the agent installed. I copy my ~/.gnupg from computer to computer and have 
never installed the agent on those other machines. I have been doing it like 
this on my dev boxes now for over a year. The reason I didn't install the 
agent in the past is because it conflicted with debuild/debsign, and after 
talking to Scott in #ubuntu-motu just now, I tested this on my Gutsy box and 
it is the first time in over a year that debsign -S -sa didn't complain about 
my GPG key or password. It worked, which made me happy, no more typing 
the -k2e2c0124.

-- 
Richard A. Johnson
nixternal at ubuntu.com
GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124
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