[MlMt] gpg2 path?

[John Purnell]

Following on from Bill's suggestions, a 4th option would be to run the 
following command in Terminal:

sudo printf '%s\n' 'setenv MM_GPG /usr/local/bin/gpg2' >> 
/etc/launchd.conf

and then log out and back in. This would also set the variable 
persistently.

John

On 2015-04-21, at 22:58 +0200, Bill Cole 
<mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:

> On 21 Apr 2015, at 13:28, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> 	I've moved off of GPGTools, and am running the current gpg2 tooling 
>> from GNU (brew package, if anyone is interested).  However, it seems 
>> as if the GPGTools path is stuck somewhere in the system for the path 
>> for gpg2.  Any hidden variable where I can change that path?
>
>
> [CAVEATS: I am not Benny.
>       Everything below is conjecture based on a few minutes of 
> investigation.
>       My advice is worth every penny you've paid for it :)]
>
> The Release Notes say that the path to gpg2 was originally hardcoded 
> to /usr/local/bin/gpg2 and later the "default" was changed to 
> /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2 but there's nothing I can find anywhere 
> documenting a way to change or override that default. However, a bit 
> of grep work indicates that the places in /Application/MailMate.app/ 
> where the strings MacGPG2 and gpg2 occur (in the main binary and the 
> OakMIME framework library) are near the string MM_GPG, which appears 
> to be used as a variable name based on its context, probably imported 
> from the environment (quirky!) This suggests 3 possible approaches, if 
> your homebrew binary is at /usr/local/bin/gpg2:
>
> 1. Symlink the hardcoded name to the working one:
>  sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin
>  sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/gpg2 /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin
>
> 2. Set the MM_GPG environment variable via launchctl. There are 2 ways 
> to do this:
> a. Manually as needed, once per login session in a Terminal session:
>     /bin/launchctl setenv MM_GPG /usr/local/bin/gpg2
> b. In a launchd .plist (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/) which runs the 
> command above every time you log in. The details for constructing a 
> launchd .plist file are readily available via 'man launchd.plist'.
>
> 3. Set the MM_GPG variable for MailMate with defaults:
>  sudo defaults write com.freron.MailMate MM_GPG -string 
> "/usr/local/bin/gpg2"
>
>
> Given the context around 'MM_GPG' in the 2 files it occurs in, my 
> guess is that (2) will work but (3) will not. It is unlikely for them 
> both to work. (1) will almost surely work, but it is inelegant.
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