[arch-general] gnupg, dirmngr and sockets

[arnaud gaboury]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:12 PM Jens Adam <jra at byte.cx> wrote:

> > EDIT : why is the system gnupg directory under /etc/pacman.d ?
> > Wouldn't it be better to have /etc/gnupg ?
>
> There is no _system gnupg directory_.
> pacman uses its own instance for package verification and usually
> there's no need to ever fiddle with that (and in that case, use
> 'pacman-key').
>
> I also never had a /root/.gnupg, no idea what you did there.
>

Maybe during my today tests (dir dated as today). Removed it.

As for the sockets, I do not see anyway to move them elsewhere.

>
> Most problems with keyserver operations are due to the fact that Arch
> upgraded from GnuPG 2.0 to 2.1 at some point and many people (me
> included) never got the memo about dirmngr.conf.
>
> --byte
>