[Solved] How do I setup GPG?

thelucster · 2017-06-09 07:43:56

I'm trying to setup GPG so that keys for AUR packages can be trusted. However ~/.gnupg on my machine is empty and ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf doesn't exist.

I came across this topic which suggests copying the default from /usr/share/gnupg/gpg-conf.skel, but that file doesn't exist either.

Next I just created ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and found a set of default options, except GPG is behaving as if it's not reading the configuration from this file.

Help?

Last edited by thelucster (2017-06-13 06:31:39)

WorMzy · 2017-06-09 08:33:55

/usr/share/gnupg/gpg-conf.skel, but that file doesn't exist either.

It seems to have been removed in a recent update. Either upstream dropped it, or they stopped installing it by default.

Unfortunately this means the wiki is slightly out of date, however, I don't think this changes the setup that drastically. My own gpg.conf only has one option (keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve) in it, which I added myself. What options are you trying to use? Did yo uset the permissions correctly, heeding the caveat under https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gn … tion_files?

thelucster · 2017-06-13 06:31:25

Ok I solved the issue, I was making assumptions about what was wrong, but it was nothing to do with that. This topic describes the actual issue I was having (I assumed I needed a keyserver entry in gpg.conf):

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222415

The issue was that the systemd-networkd resolv.conf symlink was missing (strangely that's the only thing that broke from three months of using this machine ).

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[Solved] How do I setup GPG?

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