Re: signing packages from a different machine

[Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de>]

Hi, 

On Wed Aug 22, 2007 at 10:46:38 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi
>     I have access to two machines - say machine A, machine B. On machine A
> when I build a package, I can automatically sign the package as needed.
> However now I am sitting at a friends machine (machine B) and built a
> package using pdebuild. But I am not sure how to sign this package. The
> errors from pdebuild are
> 
> pbuilder-time-stamp: 1187760442
>  signfile /home/raju/pbuilder/result/texmacs_1.0.6.10-2.dsc Kamaraju
> Kusumanchi <kamaraju@gmail.com>
> gpg: skipped "Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@gmail.com>": secret key not
> available
> gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available
> debsign: gpg error occurred!  Aborting....
> 
> What should I do? Should I copy the secret key from machine A to machine B?
> or should I copy the .dsc, .changes files from machine B to machine A and
> sign there? I looked in maint-guide, developers-reference, debian-reference
> but could not find any suggestions there.

debsign -k<yourKeyId> -ruser@hostname:/path/to/changes/file.changes

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