migration by copy of ~/.gnupg not working

[charlie derr]

On 6/3/21 1:50 PM, Herr Saalfeld via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I though migrating my user GPG configuration onto a new computer should
> be as simple as making a full copy of ~/.gnupg with rsync
> 
> rsync -av old:/home/me/.gnupg /home/me/
> 
> However, on the new computer, I see nothing when I call
> 
> gpg -k
> 
> So I checked for differences
> 
> gpg --version on the new computer prints
> 
> gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20
> libgcrypt 1.8.7
> Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> Home: /home/me/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
>  CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
> Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
> 
> 
> on the old computer, it is almost the same
> 
> gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20
> libgcrypt 1.8.5
> Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> Home: /home/me/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
>  CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
> Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
> 
> 
> The directory content on both machines is
> 
> $ ls -al ~/.gnupg
> total 152
> drwx------  4 me me  4096 Jun  3 13:41 .
> drwxr-xr-x 93 me me  4096 Jun  3 11:55 ..
> drwx------  2 me me  4096 Dec 22  2017 crls.d
> -rw-------  1 me me  9400 Feb 25  2016 gpg.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 me me     0 Aug  2  2016 .gpg-v21-migrated
> drwx------  2 me me  4096 Aug 30  2019 private-keys-v1.d
> -rw-------  1 me me 31836 Apr  8 21:51 pubring.gpg
> -rw-------  1 me me    32 Jun  3 11:30 pubring.kbx
> -rw-------  1 me me   600 Apr 15 11:24 random_seed
> -rw-------  1 me me  2582 Feb 25  2016 secring.gpg
> -rw-r--r--  1 me me 49152 Oct 17  2019 tofu.db
> -rw-------  1 me me  2040 Oct 17  2019 trustdb.gpg
> 
> 
> Can anybody help me out here?
> 
> Thanks so much in advance!
> 
> Stephan

Hi Stephan,

In 2016, Robert J. Hansen posted the following instructions here on the
list, which have always worked for me:

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2016-September/056729.html

Admittedly it's been a while (a year or so?) since i last migrated using
this "recipe", so no guarantees that they're still bulletproof...

   good luck,
      ~c



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