Bug: No simple way to copy a key

[Christian Kurz]

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Hi,

as the attached bug report states, it's currently not very easy to copy
a key from a global keyring to your personal keyring. So if you want to
edit a key from the global keyring you first need to export it and then
you can import it and edit it. It would be nice, if the function
"edit-key" would first check if the key is available in the personal
keyring and if not copy it in there.=20

If I look at the source of gpg currently, I would say, that especially
the last part, the copying of the key is not trivial to program and that
gpg first needs new procedure for this. The check if the key is in the
personal-key file is in my opinion not very difficult to program. So
how can this bug be fixed?

Ciao
     Christian
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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:41:21 +0200
Subject: gnupg: no simple way to sign a key in a global keyring

Package: gnupg
Version: 0.9.7-1

I want to sign a key in /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg . The
logical way to do that seemed to be do "gpg --edit-key" on that key
and sign it. Unfortunately when saving the result gpg segfaulted
when it discovered it couldn't write to that file.

It would be very useful if gpg could offer to copy the key to my
own keyring and store it there.

Wichert.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux lightning 2.2.7 #7 Mon May 10 23:16:06 CEST 1999 i586=
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nown

Versions of the packages gnupg depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-9        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and time=
zone
ii  libgdbmg1       1.7.3-26       GNU dbm database routines (runtime versi=
on).
ii  zlib1g          1.1.3-3        compression library - runtime
ii  makedev         2.3.1-26       Creates special device files in /dev.

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