Re: gpg couldn't import pgp keys
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 11:47:57AM +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:01:35AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote:
> >
> > Julian, Josip, thank you. I encountered a challenge reconfiguring
> > the apt get method of dselect to obtain access to this section,
> > having to actually ftp to non-us.debian.org to learn the directory
> > structure,
> > but I succeeded, and imported all the keys in keyring.pgp, except
> > 6 out of the 507, which, I think, weren't signed.
>
> Rather than importing keys, I find it handy to set up gpg to find the
> keys directly, so that if the debian-keyring package is updated, you
> don't need to worry about importing the new keys ...
>
> put:
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg
>
> and also this is you've enabled rsa and idea:
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp
>
> in your ~/.gnupg/options
> Makes it a bit easier ...
>
Only somewhat; I've discovered that gpg wants to lock PGP
style public keyrings - listing one on /usr/share/keyrings
means it will fail.
Likewise if you want to delete a key (GPG or PGP). I'd
stick to importing public keys you need/want. Overall
it is simpler.
Anand
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