From 4bd0fa843176a112c054929fbe6dd99f45d718a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kali Kaneko Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:52:50 -0500 Subject: Imported Upstream version 1.3.1 --- docs/NOTES-python-gnupg-development.org | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/NOTES-python-gnupg-development.org (limited to 'docs/NOTES-python-gnupg-development.org') diff --git a/docs/NOTES-python-gnupg-development.org b/docs/NOTES-python-gnupg-development.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ea6b6b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/NOTES-python-gnupg-development.org @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +-*- mode: org; epa-file-encrypt-to: ("isis@leap.se") -*- +#+TITLE: python-gnupg audit +#+AUTHOR: isis +#+EMAIL: isis@leap.se +#+DATE: 2013-02-01 Fri +#+DESCRIPTION: +#+KEYWORDS: +#+LANGUAGE: en +#+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t +#+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc +#+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:2 ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js +#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export +#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport +#+LINK_UP: +#+LINK_HOME: +#+XSLT: + +* Development notes on patching python-gnupg + +** python-gnupg + +** Sphinx & documentation +*** Obtaining full .rst documentation from Sphinx + +Internally, Sphinx prepares and uses ReStructed Text to create the other +formats, but provides no functionality for obtaining it. To steal it from +Sphinx, we can patch the Sphinx source to print it to stdout and then pipe that +to a file. + +The patch for Sphinx is (from http://stackoverflow.com/a/2712413) changes +Sphinx's `sphinx.ext.autodoc.Documenter.add__line` function to: + +#+BEGIN_SRC python +def add_line(self, line, source, *lineno): + """Append one line of generated reST to the output.""" + print self.indent + line + self.directive.result.append(self.indent + line, source, *lineno))) +#+END_SRC + +* Resources + +** On the ctb=%d.02 bug +This bug can be triggered in several versions of GnuPG, and will result in a +message similar to: + +gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d) +gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2d) +gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid packet +gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID ******** +gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available + +The 'ctb=2d' means that GnuPG has detected an extra '-' (0x2d) character, +except that this bug occurs (seemingly) at random during batch operations when +there is no extra '-'. (Or, at least, other files generated with similar +parameters and functions do not cause the 'invalid packet' error message to +appear.) + +https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1179 +http://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue997 -- cgit v1.2.3