migration by copy of ~/.gnupg not working

[Herr Saalfeld]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks a lot!  This works perfectly but it's also the 'official'
export/ import route which is fine to get me back to work :).  I would,
though, still be interested why making a copy of the .gnupg directory
doesn't do it.  What else is gpg doing and where?  So if anybody had an
idea that would be very interesting.

Thanks again and all the best,
Stephan

On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 16:47 -0400, charlie derr wrote:
> 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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