resolv.conf and gnupg2

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  8 09:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug  7 16:34, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > currently as default Gnupg 2.x is unable to contact keyservers and recover
> > any key. Gnupg 1.x has not such problem
> > 
> > $  /usr/bin/gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5981E818 gpg: keyserver
> > receive failed: No such file or directory
> > 
> > The cryptic message is due to the absence of a /etc/resolv.conf
> > as adding a simple one with a public DNS server overcomes the issue
> > 
> > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > ; /etc/resolv.conf file for dnsmaster
> > ;
> > domain           .com
> > nameserver       0.0.0.0
> > nameserver       8.8.8.8
> > 
> > 
> > $  /usr/bin/gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5981E818
> > gpg: key D17BF2305981E818: 1 duplicate signature removed
> > gpg: key D17BF2305981E818: "Andrew Makhorin <mao@mai2.rcnet.ru>" not chan
> > gpg: Total number processed: 1
> > gpg:              unchanged: 1
> > 
> > 
> > I would expect BIND to be a package that creates/manages resolv.conf as
> > it provides a library to parser it, but I do not see any place where this is
> > done.
> > 
> > $ cygcheck -p resolv.conf
> > Found 7 matches for resolv.conf
> > ..
> > libirs161-9.11.9-1 - libirs161: BIND resolv.conf parser library
> > man-pages-linux-5.13-1 - man-pages-linux: Linux manual pages
> > 
> > Any suggestion on how to solve the absence of /etc/resolv.conf ?
> > I doubt  gnupg2 is the proper package to do so.
> 
> I can't believe (but may be wrong, of course) that gnupg2 tries to
> access /etc/resolv.conf by itself.  I would rather guess that gnupg2
> is linked against one or more libs provided by the bind package,
> and thus uses the resolver from the bind package.  However, Cygwin
> provides its own resolver entry points, and those don't need
> /etc/resolv.conf, because they utilize the OS resolver.
> 
> Is there a build option to avoid building against the bind lib?
> Alternatively it might be possible to inject an autoconf variable
> from cygport...?

Having said that, Cygwin provides libresolv.a by itself anyway.
How gets gnupg2 around that?  How does it resolve?


Corinna