Bug#868769: hkt tries to open pubring.gpg which does not exist in gnupg >= 2.1

Clint Adams clint at debian.org
Tue Jul 18 12:15:29 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 03:43:52AM -0700, Cody Brownstein wrote:
> gnupgp versions 2.1 and higher store public (and private) keys in keybox
> format in ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
> 
> hkt tries to open ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg which is correct for gnupg
> versions lower than 2.1
> 
> Because hkt tries to open ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg which does not exist, hkt
> fails with the following error:
> 
> amnesia at amnesia:~$ hkt export-pubkeys 0x9BB25A1A5C1D9108
> hkt (hopenpgp-tools) 0.19.4
> Copyright (C) 2012-2016  Clint Adams
> hkt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
> are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> hkt: /home/amnesia/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: openBinaryFile: does not exist
> (No such file or directory)

This is true; hOpenPGP has no concept of keybox format, at least for
now.



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