Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Brian Almeida wrote:
> # if you use the debian-keyring package
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg
> # gpg's keyrings
> keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> secret-keyring ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg
> # your old pgp keyrings
> keyring ~/.pgp/pubring.pgp
> secret-keyring ~/.pgp/secring.pgp
> # -------------------

I've found that you should list your own keyrings first. When I had the
debian-keyrings listed first and tried to sign a key, gpg tried to write to
those files. Changing the order around let it write to my personal keyring
instead.

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see shy jo