Hello all, I finally managed to sign my package, by specifying the keyid on the command-line to dpkg-buildpackage (with the -k option). However, I am still at a loss to explain why I needed to specify it explicitly... As you can see below, gpg _can_ find the secret key, but dpkg seems to be unable to... Should I file a bug against dpkg??
Anyways, thanks to everyone who responded to my pleas for help! Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/fceu-0.81 $ dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Maintainer: //p' Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/fceu-0.81 $ gpg --list-secret-keys $(dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Maintainer: //p') sec 1024D/E61612A5 2002-09-13 Joseph Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ssb 2048g/1870C37C 2002-09-13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/fceu-0.81 $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot [snip] dpkg-deb: building package `fceu' in `../fceu_0.81-1_i386.deb'. signfile fceu_0.81-1.dsc gpg: skipped `Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>': secret key not available gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available > Good Morning Joe, > > On [13/09/02 18:34], Joe Nahmias wrote: > > I am trying to package FCE Ultra (bug #160810), however when I > > come to the crucial `dpkg-buildpackage` step, I get the following error > > message: > > > gpg: skipped 'Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>': secret key not available > > > However I am able to see my secret key when I issue the command > > `gpg --list-secret-keys`, and I am able to sign files. > > This means that there's no secret key with a UID named 'Joe Nahmias > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'. A quick look at dpkg-buildpackage suggests that it > first tries uses the value of the command line option -e to decide which > key to use. If this fails, it will try the value of the command line > option -m. If both fail, it will try to parse the changelog with this > command 'dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Maintainer: //p'. Now please > run the last command and look at the output, it should be something like > this: > > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Now please run gpg --list-secret-keys and give as last option the output > from the command. I'll currently guess that gpg won't show a secret key > for this name. This would either mean that you need to change the > maintainer entry in the changelog or use the option -k to specify which > key to use for signing the package. > > Christian > > -- > Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) > 1024D/B7CEC7E8 44BD 1F9E A997 3BE2 A44F 96A4 1C98 EEF3 B7CE C7E8
