gpg --edit, delsigs and --no-tty

[Peter Palfrader]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004, David Shaw wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:54:32PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:04:19PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > 
> > > > When I call gpg --edit with --no-tty then I don't get any information
> > > > about which signature is about to be removed:
> > > 
> > > Printing to a TTY despite the user specifying --no-tty would be a
> > > pretty unpleasant hack.
> > 
> > Well, of course I meant printing it to stdout, not the tty :)
> > 
> > >                          This is fixed properly in 1.3.x, where delsig
> > > and --with-colons gives you the sig in colon form and the TTY is
> > > irrelevant.
> > 
> > Cool. 1.3.6 doesn't do this yet, is there an ETA for the next 1.3.x
> > release?
> 
> Right now :)

Thanks, David and Werner.

| weasel at galaxy:~/tmp/keys$ ~/tmp/gpg/gnupg-1.3.90/g10/gpg --with-colons --edit 2719AF35 
[..]
| pub:-:1024:1:1B080C452719AF35:800361729:0::-:
| fpr:::::::::3FD9FA498B6D60955BE3AD83677F9E69:
| uid:-::::::::Ben Laurie <ben at thebunker.net>::::1,p:
| 
| Command> 1
| 
| pub:-:1024:1:1B080C452719AF35:800361729:0::-:
| fpr:::::::::3FD9FA498B6D60955BE3AD83677F9E69:
| uid:-::::::::Ben Laurie <ben at thebunker.net>::::1,ps:
| 
| Command> delsig
| uid  Ben Laurie <ben at thebunker.net>
| sig:!::1:2719AF354042FFA0:1078132640:0::::13x
           ^^^^^^^^
| Delete this good signature? (y/N/q)n
| uid  Ben Laurie <ben at thebunker.net>
| sig:!::17:94C09C7F40CB7145:1087074629:0::::13x
            ^^^^^^^^
| Delete this good signature? (y/N/q)

It seems the long keyids are wrong tho.  The first 8 digits are the
short keyid, the other 8 digits, I don't know.

-- 
Peter