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gpg: Take care to use pubring.kbx if it has ever been used.
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gpg: Take care to use pubring.kbx if it has ever been used.

* kbx/keybox-defs.h (struct keybox_handle): Add field for_openpgp.
* kbx/keybox-file.c (_keybox_write_header_blob): Set openpgp header
flag.
* kbx/keybox-blob.c (_keybox_update_header_blob): Add arg for_openpgp
and set header flag.
* kbx/keybox-init.c (keybox_new): Rename to do_keybox_new, make static
and add arg for_openpgp.
(keybox_new_openpgp, keybox_new_x509): New.  Use them instead of the
former keybox_new.
* kbx/keybox-update.c (blob_filecopy): Add arg for_openpgp and set the
openpgp header flags.
* g10/keydb.c (rt_from_file): New.  Factored out and extended from
keydb_add_resource.
(keydb_add_resource): Switch to the kbx file if it has the openpgp
flag set.
* kbx/keybox-dump.c (dump_header_blob): Print header flags.

The problem was reported by dkg on gnupg-devel (2014-10-07):

I just discovered a new problem, though, which will affect people on
systems that have gpg and gpg2 coinstalled:

 0) create a new keyring with gpg2, and use it exclusively with gpg2
for a while.
 1) somehow (accidentally?) use gpg (1.4.x) again -- this creates
~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
 2) future runs of gpg2 now only look at pubring.gpg and ignore
pubring.kbx -- the keys you had accumulated in the keybox are no
longer listed in the output of gpg2 --list-keys

Note that gpgsm has always used pubring.kbx and thus this file might
already be there but without gpg ever inserted a key. The new flag in
the KBX header gives us an indication whether a KBX file has ever been
written by gpg >= 2.1. If that is the case we will use it instead of
the default pubring.gpg.

  • Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>

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wernerAuthored on Oct 9 2014, 7:10 PM
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