Gpgverify assumes wrong default gnupg setup (with patch)

[Toon van der Pas]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 04:14:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Toon van der Pas <toon at hout.vanvergehaald.nl> writes:
> 
> > I think so too. The INSTALL text describes the indended
> > behaviour, but the code doesn't implement it the way it is
> > described.  The INSTALL text says:
> 
> >     "INN expects the public key ring to either be in the default
> >     location for a PGP public key ring for the news user (generally
> >     ~news/.gnupg for GnuPG and ~news/.pgp for old PGP implementations),
> >     or in pathetc/pgp (/usr/local/news/etc/pgp by default).  The latter
> >     is the recommended path."
> 
> > So according to the INSTALL text /usr/local/news/etc/pgp is the
> > preferred location, but the default pgp/gnupg keyring location
> > should work out-of-the-box too.  The comment in the gpgverify
> > script agrees with this, but the accompanying code doesn't.
> > It simply doesn't work with the keyring at the default location.
> 
> I understand that gpgverify has a problem here (and we'll fix
> that), but you were claiming that pgpverify had the same problem,
> and so far as I can tell, it doesn't.  Was I just misunderstanding?

I never said that pgpverify doesn't work.
I only referred to the pgpverify manpage, because there is no
gpgverify manpage available to which I can refer.