Re: PGP vs. GnuPG again... sorry
--On Sat, Nov 7, 1998 12:02 pm +0100 "Martin Bialasinski"
<martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>>> "ZP" == Zed Pobre <zed@moebius.interdestination.com> writes:
>
> ZP> Had you considered abandoning the exit code check and instead
> ZP> grepping through the output for "BAD signature"? Sorry for the lack
>
> In what way should this be better?
>
>>From the PGP Userguide, Volume II :
>
> An exit status code of zero means normal exit, while a nonzero exit
> status indicates some kind of error occurred. Different error exit
> conditions return different exit status codes to the shell.
>
> This looks like a pretty good check actually.
The point is that GPG is 'broken' w.r.t to exit codes. However, Debian
would like to transition to GPG a.s.a.p. since PGP is painfully non-free.
Therefore, the suggestion was to use the words in the output rather than the
exit code as a work-around until the GPG team fix the exit codes.
Jules
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