[Pkg-gnupg-commit] [gnupg2] 238/292: doc: Clarify dirmngr option --daemon.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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commit 1854f0f6112651c4fc3b92372b98c932e830ed21
Author: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
Date: Fri Nov 11 08:25:04 2016 +0100
doc: Clarify dirmngr option --daemon.
--
With commit d83ba4897bf217d1045c58d1b99e52bd31c58812 all system daemon
features have been removed and thus this should be reflected in the
man page.
Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
---
doc/dirmngr.texi | 20 +++++---------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/dirmngr.texi b/doc/dirmngr.texi
index 6620a87..300068e 100644
--- a/doc/dirmngr.texi
+++ b/doc/dirmngr.texi
@@ -82,8 +82,9 @@ This is only used for testing.
@item --daemon
@opindex daemon
Run in background daemon mode and listen for commands on a socket.
-Note that this also changes the default home directory and enables the
-internal certificate validation code. This mode is deprecated.
+This is the way @command{dirmngr} is started on demand by the other
+GnuPG components. To force starting @command{dirmngr} it is in
+general best to use @code{gpgconf --launch dirmngr}.
@item --supervised
@opindex supervised
@@ -141,21 +142,11 @@ per-user configuration file. The default configuration file is named
@item --homedir @var{dir}
@opindex options
Set the name of the home directory to @var{dir}. This option is only
-effective when used on the command line. The default depends on the
-running mode:
-
- at table @asis
-
- at item With @code{--daemon} given on the commandline
-the directory named @file{@value{SYSCONFDIR}} is used for configuration files
-and @file{@value{LOCALCACHEDIR}} for cached CRLs.
-
- at item Without @code{--daemon} given on the commandline
+effective when used on the command line. The default os
the directory named @file{.gnupg} directly below the home directory
of the user unless the environment variable @code{GNUPGHOME} has been set
in which case its value will be used. All kind of data is stored below
this directory.
- at end table
@item -v
@@ -345,8 +336,7 @@ configured LDAP server if the connection using the "proxy" failed.
@opindex ldapserverlist-file
Read the list of LDAP servers to consult for CRLs and certificates from
file instead of the default per-user ldap server list file. The default
-value for @var{file} is @file{dirmngr_ldapservers.conf} or
- at file{ldapservers.conf} when running in @option{--daemon} mode.
+value for @var{file} is @file{dirmngr_ldapservers.conf}.
This server list file contains one LDAP server per line in the format
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