Re: [PATCH] gpg-interface: fix for gpgsm v2.3

[Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>]

On 07.02.2022 11:38, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>Hi Fabien,
>
>Fabian Stelzer wrote:
>> On 03.02.2022 15:01, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>> (To be clear, I mean "clever and wrong" in regard to my use
>>> of the string list API, not anyone else's code.)
>>
>> string_list_split seems a bit like overkill.
>
>I have little doubt that the string_list_split() method is
>far from ideal. :)
>
>> I looked for sth like this but gpgs --help does not list it so i didn't dig
>> deeper. I've checked the blame and it seems like this was introduced >19
>> years ago. So i guess we can probably use this ^^
>
>Indeed, the --with-colons output goes much further back in
>the GnuPG history than Git will ever have to care about.
>
>>>    --- a/t/lib-gpg.sh
>>>    +++ b/t/lib-gpg.sh
>>>    @@ -72,12 +72,10 @@ test_lazy_prereq GPGSM '
>>>                    --passphrase-fd 0 --pinentry-mode loopback \
>>>                    --import "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-gpg/gpgsm_cert.p12 &&
>>>
>>>    -	gpgsm --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" -K |
>>>    -	grep fingerprint: |
>>>    -	cut -d" " -f4 |
>>>    -	tr -d "\\n" >"${GNUPGHOME}/trustlist.txt" &&
>>>    +	gpgsm --homedir "${GNUPGHOME}" -K --with-colons |
>>>    +	awk -F ":" "/^fpr:/ {printf \"%s S relax\\n\", \$10}" \
>>>    +		>"${GNUPGHOME}/trustlist.txt" &&
>>
>> This does not quite work for me. It will add the fingerprint without the
>> colons into the trustlist which is not valid :/
>
>The colons are optional, and have been documented as such
>since cb1840720 ((Agent Configuration): New section.,
>2005-04-20).  The text in the gpg-agent docs from GnuPG 2.2
>say:
>
>    Colons may optionally be used to separate the bytes of a
>    fingerprint; this enables cutting and pasting the
>    fingerprint from a key listing output.
>
>Source: https://dev.gnupg.org/source/gnupg/browse/STABLE-BRANCH-2-2/doc/gpg-agent.texi;8021fe7670c79d5c698ec3fb600b02a9e5afb415$756?as=source&blame=off
>
>How did it fail for you?  It passes all the tests when I've
>run it against Fedora and RHEL-based hosts.  If it's flaky
>on other systems, that would put a damper on doing it this
>way.  Though it _should_ work.

Sorry for the delays, I'm a bit busy with other things at the moment. I did 
get an interactive popup asking if I would like to trust the key when I ran 
the t4202 test. This never happened with the old variant.

>
>[Note to myself] We don't just generate the key data,
>trustlist, etc. and store it in t/lib-gpg like we do with
>some other files per b41a36e635 (tests: create gpg homedir
>on the fly, 2014-12-12).  That was because the gnupg home
>directory layout changed a bit between 2.0 and 2.1.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- 
>Todd