I just went through the process of switching to brew provided gpg2. Anyone not 
interested in the particular Mac workflow can skip this one.

So, removing GPG Suite, installed gnupg2 via brew, re-installing GPG Suite 
without MacGPG2 (i.e. the Mail.app helpers etc.). There is a bit of work 
involved in making a launchd script for gpg-agent and getting a working 
pinentry-mac but if gpg-agent is not a requirement, one can just go with the 
brew version.

Here’s a quick-n-dirty walk-through:

1. Remove GPG Suite using the uninstalled provided with the installer.
2. brew install gnupg2 (installs gpg-agent as a dependency).
3. Install GPG Suite, choose Customize —> Leave out MacGPG2
4. Install pinentry-mac, either binary [1] or source [2]. The pinentry with 
brew didn’t work for me. I went for the binary seeing as the build started 
requiring a bit too much dependencies I didn’t want to install right now. 
Latest binary worked for me.
5. Add pinentry-mac location to gpg-agent.conf, e.g. 
/usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec/pinentry-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/pinentry-mac (I just 
copied the binary to where MacGPG2 installs it.)
6. Add a ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.ruriat.gpgagent.plist [3] <— Note that the 
name is quite freeform. Customise as needed.
7. Add the usual agent environment variables to bash profile [4].


[1] https://github.com/GPGTools/pinentry-mac/downloads
[2] https://github.com/GPGTools/pinentry-mackk

[3] My example is based on 
http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/02/09/gnupg-openpgp-smartcard/

** START [3] com.ruriat.gpgagent.plist **

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" 
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.ruriat.gpgagent</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent</string>
        <string>--daemon</string>
        <string>--scdaemon-program</string>
        <string>/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg2/2.0.26/libexec/scdaemon</string>
        <string>--write-env-file</string>
        <string>--use-standard-socket</string>
        <string>--default-cache-ttl</string>
        <string>43200</string>
        <string>--enable-ssh-support</string>
        <string>--default-cache-ttl-ssh</string>
        <string>43200</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
    <key>ServiceDescription</key>
    <string>Run gpg-agent at login.</string>
    </dict>
</plist>

** END [3] com.ruriat.gpgagent.plist **

[4] START (file ~/.bash_profile)

GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY
# GPG Agent for SSH support
if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then
    . "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info"
    export GPG_AGENT_INFO
    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
    export SSH_AGENT_PID
fi

[4] END

-- 
Ville

On 19 Aug 2014, at 22:33, Doug Barton <do...@dougbarton.us> wrote:

> On 8/19/14 11:17 AM, Ville Määttä wrote:
>> 1. The package and gnupg2 version used has not been updated since October 
>> 2013 (2013.10.22). If I’m not completely mistaken the version is still 
>> 2.0.22.
> 
> Yes, that was my biggest concern as well (and you're correct on the version).
> 
> Is there a better solution? I'm comfortable on the command line, and wouldn't 
> mind compiling my own if there was a suitable step-by-step guide available. 
> I've compiled lots of stuff for FreeBSD and Linux, but while I've used Macs 
> in the past I'm new to being a Mac "owner."
> 
> If "compile your own" is the right answer, I'd also be appreciative of a 
> guide for getting gpg-agent running on a Mac. I see the GPG Suite version 
> running in the ps list, and I know how to get .app stuff started at login 
> time, but I haven't gotten to the part of the manual where it talks about 
> autostart for command line stuff yet. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
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