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
