newbie question #2: how to calculate web of trust

[Lucas Gonze]

Writing out the question helped me answer it for myself, I think.  You
import signed keys using

   --import 
    (or maybe) 
   --fast-import ... --merge-only

then do --edit on an individual key to 
see the computed trust value.

> I'm not finding info in the gpg man page or the online handbook at
> http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html on how to perform a web of trust
> validation on a key.
> 
> Am I missing this?  Is the answer that you have to traverse the web 
> yourself using something like pathfinder?
> 
> - Lucas