why is your apt pubring not a file or apt as user updated

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:31:12 +0200
rant and tricks

I had written a little script to create a local config, so one can as user run everything (short of actually installing packages) as user. (Which is quite useful to download all packages needed to update an offline system or to install something on that. Of course one needs that system status file for that).

When updating that script to the apt now checking signatures I had to realize, that the file with the keys to look for in Release.gpg files seems to be no file. At least it's location is not stored in apt's Dir section, where it would be nicely adapted to changes of the other directory, but is stored as a simple value elsewhere, so it needs an additional overwriting.</rant>

Anyway. The updated script can be downloaded here, just in case it might be of interest to anyone else.