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

Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqueto at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 17:51:02 EST 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> 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 ?

Pacman uses gpgme, which is compiled against gnupg and gnupg2. I don't
know if it would possible to make gnupg2 an optional dependency,
though.

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