Attempting to use caff (from app-crypt/signing-party-1.1.4) to sign a GPG key I came accross a problem. It would always indefinitely print this after signing: Could not import <the_key> into temporary gnupg. Enabling debug and tracing in caff shows the following message: [trace2] stderr is now gpg: keyring `/tmp/caff-<the_key>-N3eRx/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/tmp/caff-<the_key>-N3eRx/pubring.gpg' created gpg: Fatal: can't open `/tmp/caff-<the_key>-N3eRx/trustdb.gpg': No such file or directory Googling for that I found the debian bug I linked to and can confirm that the same gnupg command fails in the same way, and looking at an strace of caff it's doing something similar (using the all important --trust-model=always to make it happen): [pid 9714] execve("/usr/bin/gpg", ["gpg", "--batch", "--no-tty", "--homedir", "/tmp/caff-<the_key>-ejET7", "--status-fd", "5", "--no-auto-check-trustdb", "--trust-model=always", "--import"], [/* 64 vars */]) = 0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Using caff, having configured it: 1. caff <some key> 2. follow instructions to sign key 3. observe infinite loop of messages and accumulation of /tmp/ directories Or using gpg directly: 1. gpg --export <some_key> > some_key.gpg 2. mkdir /tmp/caff-test-ejET7 3. gpg --homedir /tmp/caff-test-ejET7 --trust-model=always --import < some_key.pgp 4. observe error message about inability to open trustdb.gpg and non-zero exit code It only happens once. rm -fr /tmp/caff-test-ejET7 to reproduce again. If you don't have a key to import, it also happens with --gen-key as pointed out on the debian bug report, but that takes longer as it has to gather enough entropy to generate the key. Actual Results: gpg: Fatal: can't open `/tmp/caff-<the_key>-N3eRx/trustdb.gpg': No such file or directory non-zero exit code Expected Results: gnupg should just create the missing trustdb.gpg and continue. That's what the debian report seems to imply anyway. $ emerge --info !!! Repository 'gbin' is missing masters attribute in '/var/lib/layman/gbin/metadata/layout.conf' !!! 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Created attachment 382788 [details, diff] Fix patch from debian bug report Adding this patch to /etc/portage/pages/app-crypt/gnupg/ and re-emerging gnupg made it work for me. It is from the debian bug report.
Thanks. I recall this issue, indeed, and it has been fixed already in 1.4. Try 2.0.26 in ~arch that includes similar patch taken from the upstream git repo. + 13 Aug 2014; Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org> + +files/gnupg-2.0.26-Need-to-init-the-trustdb-for-import.patch, + +gnupg-2.0.26.ebuild: + Version bump to 2.0.26. Add patch to fix an import issue for trust- + model=always (bug #519760) This patch is also submitted to gnupg-devel ( http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2014-August/028659.html )
