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Bug#341976: marked as done (apt-key add should allow to install from keyserver)

Your message dated Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:36:17 +0100
with message-id <20150126163617.GA16837@sym.noone.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#341976: This bug can probably be closed
has caused the Debian Bug report #341976,
regarding apt-key add should allow to install from keyserver
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.43
Severity: wishlist

When using apt-key add, the help and manpage tell to provide a public key from
a file without rendering any information how to use gpg to extract it from the
keyserver. As the key-id is available from apt-get anyway, permitting the user
to ask apt-key to retrieve this key from a nearby keyserver directly and
prompting with fingerprint to add this would be much more convenient.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8.1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Version: 0.6.43.1

Hi,

Carlos Ramos wrote:
> Hello, AFAIK in the current stable version of apt (0.8.10.3+squeeze1)
> the functionality requested in this report can be achieved by
> something like this:
> 
> sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 1285491434D8786F
>
> This will effectively download and install the key id 1285491434D8786F
> in the apt keyring from the key server pool.sks-keyservers.net. Maybe
> this bug can be closed ?

I agree.

The first mentioning of "apt-key adv" was in the changelog entry for
0.7.16:

  * Document apt-key finger and adv commands
    (thanks to Stefan Schmidt, closes: #350575)

Looking at #350575, the patch to just add the documentation for
something which is already there, was against apt 0.6.43.1. So we can
assume that this feature was already present in at least 0.6.43.1.

Actually I suspect that the requested feature was already present in
the reported version 0.6.43. The only thing which was missing was the
documentation and hence it stayed undiscovered and wanted. :-)

I'm closing this bug report accordingly.

Feel free to reopen this bug report if you think that this must be
a functionality of the "apt-key add" subcommand instead of the
"apt-key adv" subcommand.

		Regards, Axel
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