Multiple keyring support

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:22:25AM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:46:07PM +1100, David Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, David Shaw wrote:
> > > Now you still have the current pubring listed first in key listings,
> > > but new keys go to the catch-all ring.  To override, restore
> > > writability to pubring.gpg.
> > > 
> > > (I'm not saying this is necessarily optimal, but it does give you what
> > > you want).
> > 
> > It's certainly not as nice as it used to be, especially when you want to
> > move or update keys.  I'd be interested in hearing why the behavior
> > changed.
> 
> I'm not sure why it changed.  Werner would have to say.
> 
> I am interested in the problem though.  It seems to me that the 1.0.6
> behavior is just as "bad" as the 1.0.7 - it's just different and
> easier to work around to get what you want.  In 1.0.6, a user is
> forced to put the catchall keyring last.  What if the user wants it
> somewhere else?
> 
> What if there was a way to flag a particular keyring (from either
> gpg.conf or the command line) as the default one, and that keyring
> became the one that new keys were imported into?  Would that solve
> everyone's problem?

I just committed a feature to do this on the development version of
GnuPG if anyone is interested in playing with it.  Use
"default-keyring" to denote the keyring that you want imports to go to
by default.  You may change it on the command line as well.  If you
don't specify a default-keyring, then the behavior is unchanged -
imports will go to the first writable keyring.

David

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