On 21 February 2013 09:09, Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:27:46 +0000
> "Robin H. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Recommendations:
>> ----------------
>> 3. Dedicated Gentoo signing subkey of EITHER:
>> 3.1. DSA 2048 bits
>> 3.2. RSA 4096 bits
>
> As a note for those who didn't know this; to make gpg use the dedicated
> subkey, you need to append an exclamation mark (!) to it. Like:
>
>   PORTAGE_GPG_KEY="9627F456F9DA7643!"
>
> Otherwise, GPG will just use this as a reference to the whole key,
> and may use other subkey.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny

Thanks for that. I didn't know it and I couldn't find any references
in the manpages.

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang

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