Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
>> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
>>>> No, please do NOT use "apt-key add" but instead download the key and
>>>> put it as a file with the suffix ".gpg" into the directory
>>>> /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
>> Just curious why you recommend this instead of "apt-key add"?
>>
>> Because the man-page for apt-key says so:
>>
>> ,----
>> | add filename
>> | [...]
>> | Note: Instead of using this command a keyring should be
>> | placed directly in the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
>> | directory with a descriptive name and either "gpg" or
>> | "asc" as file extension.
>> `----
> Thanks. FYI my Debian 8.4 apt-key man page does not contain that text.
> ii apt 1.0.9.8.3
> amd64 commandline package manager
But it works. I converted all my systems two weeks ago from putting
everything into /etc/apt/trusted.gpg via "apt-key add -" to single files
in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/, which allows me to handle the keys, addition
*and* removal, very easily via puppet.
Doing this with the one file is much more complicated, with the new
approach I just need to add or remove the GPG pubkey files to the
directory and everything works.
Grüße,
Sven.
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