GPG-pubkeys

[Mikus Grinbergs]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:31:54 +0200 (CEST) Christoph Thiel <cthiel at suse.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the systems I run 'smart' on have to access the
> > internet through a proxy.  And the internal 'gpg' calls used by
> > 'smart' do *not* supply the gpg parameter that indicates when a
> > proxy is being used.  Whenever for me 'smart' tried to import
> > any public key, the result has *always* been a message saying
> > that the gpg server could not be accessed.
>
> So, which option did you need to pass to gpg to make it actually fetch a
> key for you?

If I remember correctly, the console command I issued manually was:

  gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --keyserver-options http-proxy --recv-keys 12345678


For synaptic, that needed to be followed by:

  gpg --export --armor 12345678 | apt-key add -



mikus