Todd Zullinger wrote: > Robert L Cochran wrote: > >> I just noticed that I do not yet have a .gnupg directory on my >> Fedora 10 system. I haven't tried to create a gpg keyring on it yet. >> I want to migrate sensibly from a Fedora 7 system to a separate >> Fedora 10 system. Can I go ahead and copy the .gnupg directory from >> the old system to the new one? Or should I attempt to create a fresh >> .gnupg directory on the Fedora 10 system and selectively copy >> elements of the .gnupg directory from the old system? >> > > You should be fine to copy your ~/.gnupg dir from Fedora 7 to Fedora > 10. > > The .gnupg dir is created by gpg the first time you run it, so it > generally won't exist on a fresh install. As Tim mentioned in another > thread, you may want to check if there are any differences between > your existing ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and what gpg would currently create. > > The stock gpg.conf file is at /usr/share/gnupg/gpg-conf.skel. You > could copy your ~/.gnupg dir and then use diff to see if there were > any new settings you wished to copy from the stock config into yours. > > I'd compare the files with something like this: > > $ diff -u ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf /usr/share/gnupg/gpg-conf.skel | vi - > > Replace with your preferred file comparison method. :) > > Thank you, this is a useful lesson. With this email I should be using Enigmail 0.95.7 and hopefully no one is finding the problems I showed earlier. Bob
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