Re: resolv.conf and gnupg2

[Chad Dougherty <crd@acm.org>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> IIUC, that should be fixable by configuring gnupg with --disable-libdns.
> 

Yes, below is the message that I sent to Marco but which was rejected by 
this list because I wasn't subscribed at the time that I replied to all.

-- 
     -Chad


On 2022-08-07 10:34, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Any suggestion on how to solve the absence of /etc/resolv.conf ?
> I doubt  gnupg2 is the proper package to do so.
>

Looking into this, I'm reminded of how much I really dislike the design 
of gnupg2.

dirmngr appears to have its own DNS client library that tries to do the 
resolv.conf parsing among other things.  I believe this library gets 
compiled into the current cygwin package.

I noticed this configuration option:
   --disable-libdns        do not build with libdns support

I just tested a build using this option and it seemed to fix the problem 
for me.

I did not use the full end-to-end cygport process but I think the patch 
at the bottom of this message should do the trick.  Could you give it a 
shot?

Thanks...

-- 
     -Chad


$ diff -u gnupg2.cygport.orig gnupg2.cygport
--- gnupg2.cygport.orig 2022-08-08 14:00:18.562073400 -0400
+++ gnupg2.cygport      2022-08-08 14:00:53.146950000 -0400
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@
         cygautoreconf
         sed -i -e '/^development_version=/s/yes/no/' configure
         cd ${B}
-       cygconf --enable-gpg-is-gpg2
+       cygconf --enable-gpg-is-gpg2 --disable-libdns
         cygmake
  }