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alejandro

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Registered: 2019-12-30

Posts: 3

bad boolean config value 'null' for 'commit.gpgsign'

Hi.

when installing different packages (for instance 'laverna') through yay, I'm getting the same error message:

error merging laverna: fatal: bad boolean config value 'null' for 'commit.gpgsign'

full log: https://pastebin.com/hMgRu3V4

Is there something I'm missing? BTW: system is up-to-date
Thanks

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,304

Re: bad boolean config value 'null' for 'commit.gpgsign'

Can you reproduce the issue using makepkg?

alejandro

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Registered: 2019-12-30

Posts: 3

Re: bad boolean config value 'null' for 'commit.gpgsign'

No, I could not. My first intention was to install joplin-desktop. I was able to install it and run the app without any issue

a821

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Registered: 2012-10-31

Posts: 381

Re: bad boolean config value 'null' for 'commit.gpgsign'

wild guess: check if you have a bad setting in your global git config and or in the package's git repo in `~/.cache/yay` (or whereve yay stores its cache). `commit.gpgSign` is a git setting (see this section https://man.archlinux.org/man/git-config.1#Variables)

Last edited by a821 (2021-03-19 08:36:18)

alejandro

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Registered: 2019-12-30

Posts: 3

Re: bad boolean config value 'null' for 'commit.gpgsign'

yes, it was actually an issue created by gitblad adding invalid config to git. I removed the faulty config and now I'm able to run yay without issues. Thank you!