On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:43, do...@dougbarton.us said: >> But fixes a lot of problems. The keyring is a database and if we >> distribute this database to several files without a way to sync them; >> this leads to problems. You may have not been affected by such problems >> but only due to the way you use gpg. > > Can you elaborate on those problems? I can think of several examples > of databases whose contents are stored in multiple files without any > difficulty, so I'm curious.
But in those cases the files are either under the control of the database or partitioned using a well defined scheme. With the --keyring option this is different: You may add several keyrings to GnuPG and remove them later. There is no way GPG can tell whether there are duplicates or which instances of a duplicated entry it needs to update. Sure, we could make this working but I it will get really complex. Thus it is far easier to have one file or set of files which are under the sole control of GPG. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users