[arch-general] Pacman-key keyring and my own GPG key

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Tue Jan 17 17:46:52 EST 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:38:31PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote:
 
> Pacman keyring is for package verification. It is located in GPGDir
> = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ and contains packagers' public keys. Your sec. key is
> for your user ONLY. If you make your own packages, sign them and want them to
> be verified, you should import your PUBLIC key via pacman-key.

Vaguely related question: I noticed that pacman pulls in both
gnupg and gnupg2. Why does it need both ?

Ciao,

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FA

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