Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 5/5] RFC: pacman-key --receive without keyserver arg

On 25/08/11 23:43, Dan McGee wrote:

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Dan McGee wrote:

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Thoughts? And why isn't this called --recv-keys like gpg?

But how would you choose from where to receive the keys? --receive-keys is not exactly equivalent to to --recv-keys from gpg because the former maps to --keyserver and --recv-keys in gpg. It would save us a few keystrokes, as --keyserver is not useful for any other option (we don't send keys from pacman's keyring to any gpg keyserver).

We're going to need a gpg.conf, and we're going to have to require a "keyserver =" line in it for other things, I suppose I should have mentioned (the whole import keys bit). So this point becomes mute.

I think we still need the ability to manually specify the keyserver. The mirroring across keyservers is not necessarily the best, so you may need to specify one that works. Allan