On Jun 23, 2010, at 12:03 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

>>> Are you sure about that?  "clean" strips off useless signatures (useless 
>>> being defined as an invalid signature, a superseded signature, a revoked 
>>> signature, and a signature from a key that isn't present on the keyring). 
>>> Signatures from keys that are present, but have no trust value are not 
>>> stripped off.
>> 
>> Let me double check.  I saw it earlier today when transferring my work sig 
>> to my personal one.  But it might just have been that my coworkers did not 
>> have sigs present.  It's entirely possible I mangled the windows.
> 
> Yup, that's what happened.  I had imported my work key to my personal 
> machine, but didn't have the keys of all my coworkers on my personal box, so 
> "clean" decided to be helpful.
> 
> I pulled it off the keyserver again, and then pulled down the keys of all my 
> coworkers, and was good.

Ah, good.  I'm glad.

> On a related subject, is there a way to say "pull down the keys of all keyids 
> who have signed key X"?

Not directly, but you can do something like this:

   gpg --recv-keys `gpg --with-colons --fixed-list-mode --list-sigs $THE_KEY | 
egrep '^sig:' | cut -f5 -d: | sort -u`

David


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