On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> The main issue here is that gpg(me) creates a lock file in the keyrings home >> directory whenever it uses a keyring. Our keyring directory only has write >> permissions for the root user and thus when pacman is not being run as root >> (such as the "pacman -Qip <pkg>" case), it can not create a lock file.
And now for our other "competition", yum. Here is how they work around this problem: http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=3f0d169e7ee Also of interest is their auto key import deal: http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=751146bf73d -Dan
