Totem Movie Player

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Wed Jul 1 23:39:00 UTC 2009


gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> Now, "rpm -qi gpg-pubkey" lists public keys, we agree.
>
> Why do
>
> gpg --list-key
>
> gpg --list-public-keys
>
> output nothing?
>
> Let me guess. rpm uses gpg only for package management and has its
> own "database"?

rpm does not use gpg for processing or storing the keys that are
imported into the rpm database.  It handles this internally.

> Is the gpg "database" used for encrypting email or does it use
> still another one?

If you import a key using gpg, then it will be added to the gpg
keyring, by default this is ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg.

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