Help me on CommandLine Key Deletion in GPG 1.0.7

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:07:15AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:20:35 +0800, Enzo Michelangeli said:
> 
> > Perhaps to avoid ruinous bulk deletion of secret keys by mistake (e.g.,
> 
> Ah sure.
> 
> This is a good idea but we can take it even further and require the
> use of a fingerprint which should uniqly identify a key.  I'll change
> this for batch mode.

Please note that it also doesn't work for public keys:

marcus@ulysses[2]:~/projects/aegypten/cvs/gpgme-b/tests/gpg$ LC_ALL=C GNUPGHOME=. gpg --batch --comment "" --status-fd 2 --no-tty --charset utf8 --verbose --delete-key -- Whisky
gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on directory "."
gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on file "./pubring.gpg"
gpg: can't do that in batchmode without "--yes"

marcus@ulysses[2]:~/projects/aegypten/cvs/gpgme-b/tests/gpg$ LC_ALL=C GNUPGHOME=. gpg --comment "" --status-fd 2 --charset utf8 --verbose --delete-key -- Whisky
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.7; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on directory "."
gpg: Warning: unsafe permissions on file "./pubring.gpg"
pub  1024D/EC67DBDE 1999-03-08   Whisky Test (demo key) <whisky@example.net>

Delete this key from the keyring?

And then it works, it also works with --yes, of course, which would be a
kludge we could apply to gpgme.

Thanks,
Marcus

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