No .gnupg Directory On Fedora 10

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Tue Feb 24 02:04:15 UTC 2009


Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>   
>> I just noticed that I do not yet have a .gnupg directory on my
>> Fedora 10 system. I haven't tried to create a gpg keyring on it yet.
>> I want to migrate sensibly from a Fedora 7 system to a separate
>> Fedora 10 system.  Can I go ahead and copy the .gnupg directory from
>> the old system to the new one? Or should I attempt to create a fresh
>> .gnupg directory on the Fedora 10 system and selectively copy
>> elements of the .gnupg directory from the old system?
>>     
>
> You should be fine to copy your ~/.gnupg dir from Fedora 7 to Fedora
> 10.
>
> The .gnupg dir is created by gpg the first time you run it, so it
> generally won't exist on a fresh install.  As Tim mentioned in another
> thread, you may want to check if there are any differences between
> your existing ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and what gpg would currently create.
>
> The stock gpg.conf file is at /usr/share/gnupg/gpg-conf.skel.  You
> could copy your ~/.gnupg dir and then use diff to see if there were
> any new settings you wished to copy from the stock config into yours.
>
> I'd compare the files with something like this:
>
> $ diff -u ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf /usr/share/gnupg/gpg-conf.skel | vi -
>
> Replace with your preferred file comparison method. :)
>
>   
Thank you, this is a useful lesson. With this email I should be using
Enigmail 0.95.7 and hopefully no one is finding the problems I showed
earlier.

Bob


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