Updated after 3 week vacation. gnupg says "no pinentry"

#1

Like the title says, I upgraded my nixos-unstable after 3 weeks and now gpg -d foo.gpg tells me:

gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

Did anything change with regards to gpg or pinentry?

#2

pinentry has been disabled by default. The commit includes a release note saying

GnuPG is now built without support for a graphical passphrase entry by default. Please enable the gpg-agent user service via the NixOS option programs.gnupg.agent.enable. Note that upstream recommends using gpg-agent and will spawn a gpg-agent on the first invocation of GnuPG anyway.

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#3

@lilyball Yep, thanks, that worked perfectly!