Re: GPG2 as default /usr/bin/gpg

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On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:29:29 +0100
Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, I'm in favor too. Perhaps you could file this change/start
working on it just after we branch f24? 

kevin


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