On 6/3/21 1:50 PM, Herr Saalfeld via Gnupg-users wrote: > Hi, > > I though migrating my user GPG configuration onto a new computer should > be as simple as making a full copy of ~/.gnupg with rsync > > rsync -av old:/home/me/.gnupg /home/me/ > > However, on the new computer, I see nothing when I call > > gpg -k > > So I checked for differences > > gpg --version on the new computer prints > > gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20 > libgcrypt 1.8.7 > Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > Home: /home/me/.gnupg > Supported algorithms: > Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA > Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, > CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 > Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 > Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 > > > on the old computer, it is almost the same > > gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20 > libgcrypt 1.8.5 > Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > Home: /home/me/.gnupg > Supported algorithms: > Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA > Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, > CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 > Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 > Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 > > > The directory content on both machines is > > $ ls -al ~/.gnupg > total 152 > drwx------ 4 me me 4096 Jun 3 13:41 . > drwxr-xr-x 93 me me 4096 Jun 3 11:55 .. > drwx------ 2 me me 4096 Dec 22 2017 crls.d > -rw------- 1 me me 9400 Feb 25 2016 gpg.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 Aug 2 2016 .gpg-v21-migrated > drwx------ 2 me me 4096 Aug 30 2019 private-keys-v1.d > -rw------- 1 me me 31836 Apr 8 21:51 pubring.gpg > -rw------- 1 me me 32 Jun 3 11:30 pubring.kbx > -rw------- 1 me me 600 Apr 15 11:24 random_seed > -rw------- 1 me me 2582 Feb 25 2016 secring.gpg > -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 49152 Oct 17 2019 tofu.db > -rw------- 1 me me 2040 Oct 17 2019 trustdb.gpg > > > Can anybody help me out here? > > Thanks so much in advance! > > Stephan
Hi Stephan, In 2016, Robert J. Hansen posted the following instructions here on the list, which have always worked for me: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2016-September/056729.html Admittedly it's been a while (a year or so?) since i last migrated using this "recipe", so no guarantees that they're still bulletproof... good luck, ~c > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- Charlie Derr Director, Instructional Technology 413-528-7344 https://www.simons-rock.edu Bard College at Simon's Rock Encryption key: http://hope.simons-rock.edu/~cderr/ Personal writing: https://medium.com/@cderr Pronouns: he or they _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
