[pacman-dev] [PATCH 5/5] pacman-key: rework and document holding keys in keyring

[Allan McRae]

On 23/08/11 16:30, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> The HoldKey option was undocumented and was not suited for pacman.conf.
>> Instead use the file "/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/heldkeys" to contain a list
>> of keys not to be removed from the pacman keyring with the --populate
>> option.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>
>> ---
>
> We have 'heldkeys' and 'HOLD_KEYS' here- perhaps we should pick one
> tense and word-splitting combo? I'd prefer holdkeys/HOLDKEYS, only
> because the tense of 'heldkeys' seems different than anything else we
> do to me.
>
> Otherwise this looks pretty good. Is it worth providing an example in
> pacman-key documentation of a valid format for the held and revoked
> lists?

I'm not sure if it is worth providing an example as it is just a list of 
key IDs.  We can always add one later if this is something that needs 
clarified.

Allan