On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:12 PM Jens Adam <jra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > EDIT : why is the system gnupg directory under /etc/pacman.d ? > > Wouldn't it be better to have /etc/gnupg ? > > There is no _system gnupg directory_. > pacman uses its own instance for package verification and usually > there's no need to ever fiddle with that (and in that case, use > 'pacman-key'). > > I also never had a /root/.gnupg, no idea what you did there. > Maybe during my today tests (dir dated as today). Removed it. As for the sockets, I do not see anyway to move them elsewhere. > > Most problems with keyserver operations are due to the fact that Arch > upgraded from GnuPG 2.0 to 2.1 at some point and many people (me > included) never got the memo about dirmngr.conf. > > --byte >