Is there built-in a way validate a signature against a specific key?

[Eric Pruitt]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:14:06AM +0200, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:39, Eric Pruitt said:
> > I have multiple public keys in my GPG keyring. When validating
> > signatures, I sometimes want to validate them against a specific key so
> 
> The classcc tool for this is gpgv with its --keyring option.  This is
> what for example Debian uses to validate signatures.

I think this is what I'm already doing and what I meant when I wrote "I
do this by creating a keyring that consists of only one key and using
that [...]" or have I misunderstood what you suggested?

> A newer way is the --assert-signer option we introduced with version
> 2.4.1:

Thanks, this does what I want.

Eric