some "--list-options" not working?

[David Shaw]

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On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 02:41:14PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:14:45AM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> >> trying this with 1.3.6:
> >>  	$ gpg --list-options show-long-keyids --list-keys smasher
> >>  	gpg: unknown option `show-long-keyids'
> >>  	gpg: invalid list options
> >>
> >> "show-policy-urls" seems to be silently ignored.
> >
> > Having trouble parsing this - you gave the show-long-keyids list
> > option (which no longer exists), but really wanted show-policy-urls?
> ====================
> 
> according to the 1.3.6 man page, "show-long-keyids" is valid. i was 
> wondering if that was superseded by "--keyid-format", which seems more 
> versatile... that would make sense then, that "show-long-keyids" is not a 
> recognized list option, and produces an error.

Yes, documentation bug.  I forgot to remove show-long-keyids when
keyid-format was added.

> i was thinking that this command (1.3.6):
>  	$ gpg --list-options show-policy-url --list-keys 0xD9F57808
> would show some policy urls, but it doesn't.

No.  You'd need to do --list-sigs.  Policy URLs live on the signature,
not the key.

It's not out of the question to show self-sig policy URLs during a
- --list-keys, but it does not do that now.

David
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