[Announce] GnuPG release candidate 1.4.8

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On 11/19/07, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev at gmail.com> wrote:
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-crypt/gnupg/files/gnupg-1.4.3-selftest.patch?rev=1.1
> >
> > -       echo "../g10/gpg --no-options --no-greeting \
> > +       echo "../g10/gpg --no-options --no-greeting --homedir . \
> >               --no-secmem-warning --batch --dearmor" >>./gpg_dearmor
> >         chmod 755 ./gpg_dearmor
> > +       if test ! -f ./pubring.gpg; then touch -t 197001020000 ./pubring.gpg; fi
> > +       if test ! -f ./secring.gpg; then touch -t 197001020000 ./secring.gpg; fi
> >
> > Please explain.
>

Without --homedir won't it try to access the running user home directory?
In some cases it cause sandbox violation.
The touch stuff are not needed I guess.

> > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-crypt/gnupg/files/gnupg-1.4.6-badruman.patch?rev=1.1
> >
> > I can't see any problem with gpg.ru.
>
> Will try.

You should put the ru man page at:
/usr/man/<locale>/man[1-9lno]

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q2.html

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.