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Now, tests/console/gpg.pm uses a "blind input" method for the user interactive of key generating. It is not elegant, unstable prone, and not friendly for debugging. Some other methods we usually use, eg. disable pipe buffer with 'unbuffer' command or typescript, do not work on gpg.

Unless we really want to test the user interface for key generating, we could always use --batch arguement to make gpg get all the necessary user input value include passphrase from a file.

A simple input file format could be like:

$ cat >foo <<EOF
    %echo Generating a standard key
    Key-Type: default
    Key-Length: 2048
    Subkey-Type: default
    Subkey-Length: 2048
    Name-Real: SUSE Tester
    Name-Email: tester@suse.de
    Passphrase: testingpassword
    Expire-Date: 0
EOF

Then generate the key with

$ gpg --batch --gen-key foo