[Gpg4win-devel] Gpg4win 2.2.0: Portable vanilla ignores homedir environment variable

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:01, pvoigt at uos.de said:

> A side remark: Switches --light and --full failed with error message
> that Claws Mail is not installed.

That is why I said that you need to enable all options.

> environment variable homedir=L:\home\pvoigt\.gnupg. The portable
> version ignores this variable and insists in reading keys and
> configuration file from L:\Programme\GNU\GnuPG\home.

Right.  That is the point of the portable version.  If we would not do
this, a globally set GNUPGHOME would be used and thus the portable
version would use the configuration from a regular installation.

If you still want to use a gnupg home directory of you own choice, you
either need to use "gpg --homedir FOO ...." or way better, add

no-default-keyring
keyring L:/home/pvoigt/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
secret-keyring L:/home/pvoigt/.gnupg/secring.gpg

to L:/Programme/GNU/GnuPG/home/gpg.conf

Depending on yout Windows version and the file system of the USB stick
you could also symlink L:/Programme/GNU/GnuPG/home

If that turns out to be a problem, I am prepared to add another way to
set a home directory.  The file gpgconf.ctl can be turned into a
configuration file to set it.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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