On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:33:08 +0100, Guido Winkelmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to package some software with rpmbuild and signing the packages at > the same time. I'm following the guide found here: > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm3/ > > It mostly works - I do get properly signed RPMs at the end - however, despite > running gpg-agent, rpmbuild keeps asking for my (lengthy) GPG-passphrase every > single time it is finished with a spec-file. This can be particularly annoying > when building very large packages, because, instead of asking again, rpmbuild > will abort the entire process if I mistype the passphrase even once. If I run > rpmbuild again after that, it will build the whole package over again... > > I have started gpg-agent (as a normal user) with > > gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support \ > --write-env-file "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" > > I have put the following lines > > if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then > . "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" > export GPG_AGENT_INFO > export SSH_AUTH_SOCK > export SSH_AGENT_PID > fi > > GPG_TTY=$(tty) > export GPG_TTY > > at the end of my .bashrc, and also manually run them in my current shell. The > env command tells me it knows of the variables GPG_AGENT_INFO, SSH_AGENT_PID, > SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and GPG_TTY, with plausible looking values in all cases. When I > just run gpg-agent in my current shell with no parameters, it tells me "gpg- > agent: gpg-agent running and available". I'm running rpmbuild like this: > > rpmbuild -ba --sign rpmbuild/SPECS/<specfile> > > What am I still missing? It may be necessary to redefine the RPM macro %__gpg_sign_cmd to add option --use-agent when executing gpg. That's what I've done for the old Fedora Extras pushscripts and when testing possible alternatives to Pexpect/expect. -- Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) - Linux 3.6.9-4.fc18.x86_64 loadavg: 0.00 0.02 0.05 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org