[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#831409: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#831409: ltsp-client lacks gnupg / gnupg2 for apt-key to work

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sat 2016-09-03 04:22:48 -0400, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Sat,  3 Sep 2016 05:24, vagrant at debian.org said:
>
>>> If you've got it in ascii-armored format and aren't sure how to decode
>>> it, you should be able to do that with a short awk | base64 -d pipeline:
>>>
>>>   awk '/^$/{ x = 1; } /^[^=-]/{ if (x) { print $0; } ; }' | base64 -d 
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Or simply use
>
>   gpg --dearmor <input >output
>
> to strip an OpenPGP armor.

The original report does point out that the system in question doesn't
have gpg available.  the awk|base64 pipeline was written to accomodate
that constraint :)

     --dkg