Re: Key signature verification failure for ELPA installation

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> This looks weird to me for a few reasons, not least that gpg is looking
>> for the public keyring under the /tmp directory, but I don't know enough
>> about Emacs package signing to even triage this.
>
> Indeed it's weird that it looks for it in /tmp.  `package.el` doesn't
> use the user's ~/.gnupg config but instead uses its own, which is kept
> in package-gnupghome-dir which defaults to (expand-file-name "gnupg"
> package-user-dir) and gets populated (via package-import-keyring) in
> package-refresh-contents.

Okay, thanks -- I'll pass that information on, and tell him to bring it
up here if he keeps having trouble.

E