Re: GPG2 as default /usr/bin/gpg

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On St, 2016-02-17 at 05:52 +0000, Christopher wrote:
> I just ran into this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=130
> 9175
> It's not a huge deal (and there are several workarounds, for git and
> for
> other tools which default ot using 'gpg'), but it highlights the
> mismatch
> between the default /usr/bin/gpg running gpg1, when other tools, like
> gpg-agent, are tailored for gpg2.
> 
> RHEL/CentOS has shipped /usr/bin/gpg with gnupg2 since at least
> sometime in
> RHEL6.
> I'm not saying we shouldn't continue to ship gnupg1, but can we at
> least
> rename it, so gnupg package is version 2, and gnupg1 provides
> /usr/bin/gpg1
> instead? This seems overdue. Is there any reason not to do this?

I am in favor of changing the default too. The question is whether it
is not too late for Fedora 24 as I'd say this should be a Fedora Change
and we are past the deadline for Changes proposals. So this will have
to be postponed to Fedora 25.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb
(You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.)


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