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

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 09:43:09 EDT 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
<denisfalqueto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> ---
>>
>> 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.

-Dan


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