Error related to GnuPG about mackup

[aapit]

Any news on this? I installed Mackup a couple of days ago (through Homebrew) and this same error occurs. Already fixed some of the permissions (some files were owned by root), but haven't been able to do a complete backup yet. I have v0.5.4.

[lra]

No news here, more detail on how to best fix it would help.
It seems the problem is that mackup is trying to sync the whole .gnupg folder and there are sockets in it, which mackup does not know what to do with.

Can you come up with an explicit list of which files mackup should sync in the .gnupg folder ?

[aapit]

I've tried removing ACL on the whole folder (chmod -RN), and chown'ing it to my own user. To no avail.

For now, I've worked around it by putting this in my ~/.mackup.cfg:

[Ignored Applications]
GNUPG

Also, Mackup tries to copy my private key files to Dropbox, unencrypted. As this is potentially incredibly sensitive data, I'm not so sure I want to store everything in Dropbox just like that.

[aapit]

I think these files could be synced: gpg-agent.conf, gpg.conf. Perhaps also secring.gpg, trustdb.gpg, pubring.gpg, pubring.gpg~
Which leaves ignored: S.gpg-agent, private-keys-v1.d, random_seed

It's just a guestimate on what I have in my folder, combined with my personal preference of not storing private keys in Dropbox unencrypted. But I think ignoring the socket file (S.gpg-agent) would solve most of the problems.

[lra]

Thanks, the problem is happening a lot as a bunch of new users are using mackup.

I followed your advices and selectively sync this:

    'GnuPG': ['.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf',
              '.gnupg/gpg.conf',
              '.gnupg/secring.gpg',
              '.gnupg/trustdb.gpg',
              '.gnupg/pubring.gpg'],

The gnupg doc is great at explaining what should be kept http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg-devel/GPG-Configuration.html

[lra]

I'll release a new version now

[aapit]

Great work, thanks!