Uploading keys.

[Jean-David Beyer]

In the past I have uploaded my GnuPG public key to various keyservers.
I forgot how that really works.

I just added a new subkey to my key because the previous one is going to 
expire soon. I then did things like this:

valinux:jdbeyer[~/.gnupg]$ gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --send-key 
whimsey
gpg: success sending to `pgpkeys.mit.edu' (status=200)
valinux:jdbeyer[~/.gnupg]$

But when I look at that key server, my old key is still there, not the 
new one. My new public key ends like this:

  iSL+lVDSPGaWjI+d34hMBBgRAgAMBQI+1MzqBQkCUUMAAAoJED7btl6aL8maVlMA
  n0t+8+tD12j666iZXWgrLIz3jO7SAKDHpgmsXaK9wirCAuTofwsAwv38dg==
  =dnNi
  -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

and that is clearly not the same as my old public key that ends like this:

  RIhMBBgRAgAMBQI7rAjeBQkB4TOAAAoJED7btl6aL8mact4AnRH3Su9LJlFnqA8Q
  xvlkXcq8t6niAKCaqqaNDR23dmbVfvKDtg2Td9ooVg==
  =Bmof
  -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

If I do gpg --edit-key whimsey, I get this:

Secret key is available.

pub  1024D/9A2FC99A  created: 2001-09-22 expires: never      trust: u/u
sub  1024g/EEF02424  created: 2001-09-22 expires: 2002-09-22
sub  2048g/FE6BE54F  created: 2002-03-02 expires: 2003-08-24
sub  2048g/D91C7C08  created: 2003-05-28 expires: 2004-08-20
(1). Jean-David Beyer (Institute for Regimented Whimsey) 
<jdbeyer@jdbeyer.exit109.com>

I guess my question is: do keyservers update their databases in batch 
mode and I should just have patience to see the update? (I am not 
talking about the change propagating to other keyservers: just the one 
where I updated the change.)

Or is something wrong and the

gpg: success sending to `pgpkeys.mit.edu' (status=200)

message is somehow invalid?

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