2 Bugs in gpg 1.2.0

[Jeremy Lin]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:40:32PM +0200, Martin Kahlert wrote:
> Hi!
> Here are some bugs with gpg-1.2.0 on FreeBSD:
> 
> $ /bin/rm -rf .gnupg
> $ gpg --gen-key
> [....]
> gpg: no writable secret keyring found: eof
> Key generation failed: eof
> 
> $ touch .gnupg/secring.gpg
> $ gpg --gen-key
> this works.

David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> replied:

> If you delete your .gnupg directory, you need to recreate it with
> "gpg" (no options) first, and then you can generate a new key.

Isn't this a little unintuitive? Some tutorials out there say that the
first thing to do as a new GPG user is to do a 'gpg --gen-key', which
then seems to work perfectly well until it bombs out unexpectedly with
that error message. IMHO, I think this behavior is a bug.

Jeremy