Bug 477728 – repoman ci fails to signed commit with pinentry-curses

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Azamat H. Hackimov 2013-07-22 11:31:26 UTC]

When I switch to pinentry-curses, I cannot sign commits in git-based overlay:

LANG=en repoman ci

RepoMan scours the neighborhood...
>>> Creating Manifest for /home/winterheart/gentoo/overlay/foo/bar

Note: use --include-dev (-d) to check dependencies for 'dev' profiles

* 1 files being committed...

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Azamat H. Hackimov <[e-mail]>"
2048-bit DSA key, ID A018DE8C, created 2011-01-18

[there should be appear pinentry-curses window]

gpg: problem with the agent: End of file
gpg: skipped "0xA018DE8C": Operation cancelled
gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
error: gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object
!!! Exiting on git (shell) error code: 128

When I switch back to pinentry-qt4 or pinentry-gtk2, window with passphrase request normally appears.

[Comment 1 Azamat H. Hackimov 2013-07-22 11:35:30 UTC]

Created attachment 353854 [details]
emerge-info.txt

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2013-07-22 15:16:37 UTC]

It seems like you have a problem with your gpg, gpg-agent, or how you have them configured.

We use python's subprocess.call() function to execute gpg, and it is the simplest possible way to do so. The subprocess inherits all three stdin, stdout, and stderr streams.

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-22 15:29:48 UTC]

Fine for me, paste you configs without the comments

[Comment 4 Azamat H. Hackimov 2013-07-22 16:40:21 UTC]

egrep -v "^(#|$)" ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
default-key A018DE8C
require-cross-certification
charset utf-8
keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net
use-agent

I use net-misc/keychain for gpg-agent.

[Comment 5 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2013-07-27 21:53:45 UTC]

I can reproduce the same, using plain gpg configuration:

$ repoman commit -m "a1"

RepoMan scours the neighborhood...
>>> Creating Manifest for /usr/local/portage/ovirt-overlay/app-admin/x1

Note: use --include-dev (-d) to check dependencies for 'dev' profiles

* 3 files being committed... 

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Alon Bar-Lev <[e-mail]>"
2048-bit DSA key, ID BF20DC51, created 2013-02-13

gpg-agent[8791]: enabled debug flags: command mpi crypto memory cache memstat hashing assuan
pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8
                                                   pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8
                                                                                                      pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8
                                                                                                                                                         pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8

However it is not repoman fault but git fault... I get the same using:

$ git commit -m "a1" --gpg-sign

[Comment 6 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2013-07-27 21:59:00 UTC]

The following does work:

$ GPG_TTY=$(tty) repoman commit -m "a1"

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2013-07-27 22:30:04 UTC]

This should fix it:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=af76565d011464a6da418478655848182099e117

[Comment 8 Zac Medico 2013-07-30 07:06:41 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.13.2 and 2.2.0_alpha191.