[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#834330: Bug#834330: says failed to import public key while it tried to import a private one

[Marc Haber]

Hi Johannes,

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:32:24PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Quoting Marc Haber (2016-08-14 16:11:14)
> > line 1235 in ResolverBase.pm gives the error message "Failed to import
> > public key". This line, however, covers errors importing a _private_
> > key. This is most probably a copy-and-paste error.
> 
> it probably is. Fixed in git. Thanks!

;-)

> > While we are in this line at the first place, is it possible that this
> > sbuild only works once and fails every following time because the
> > private key is already there, gpg --import thus returning 2 and not 0?
> > 
> > I have only seen this behavior when sbuild is being called from
> > mini-buildd, so this can be a mini-buildd issue. Does standalone
> > sbuild start over from an empty keyring every time?
> 
> Yes. Sbuild creates a new $GNUPGHOME environment in /build/resolver-XXXXXX/gpg
> for every package build. The directory is created by mktemp so the XXXXXX part
> is random. This directory gets removed after every package build.
> 
> I would be interested to know how you convince sbuild to not do this. I don't
> see that in the code right now.
> 
> You can file another bug for that issue.

I have filed #834329 against mini-buildd for that matter.

> Also, do you require signing of the internal dummy repository in the first
> place? If not, you can just delete /var/lib/sbuild/apt-keys and then sbuild
> will stop trying to sign the internal repository. Having it signed is only
> necessary for apt versions in squeeze or older. Since wheezy, apt supports the
> [trusted=yes] option in its sources.list.

I have added that to #834329.

Greetings
Marc

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