&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>2016-07-01T00:00:00Z</date>
+ <date>2016-07-07T00:00:00Z</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<para>
Note that if usage of <command>apt-key</command> is desired the additional
installation of the GNU Privacy Guard suite (packaged in
- <package>gnupg</package>) is required. For this reason alone the programatic
+ <package>gnupg</package>) is required. For this reason alone the programmatic
usage (especially in package maintainerscripts!) is strongly discouraged.
Further more the output format of all commands is undefined and can and does
change whenever the underlying commands change. <command>apt-key</command> will
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>update</option></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>update</option> (deprecated)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
-
Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from
the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid.
The archive keyring is shipped in the <literal>archive-keyring</literal> package of your
distribution, e.g. the &keyring-package; package in &keyring-distro;.
-
</para>
-
+ <para>
+ Note that a distribution does not need to and in fact should not use
+ this command any longer and instead ship keyring files in the
+ <filename>/etc/apt/trusted.gpg</filename> directory directly as this
+ avoids a dependency on <package>gnupg</package> and it is easier to manage
+ keys by simply adding and removing files for maintainers and users alike.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
&file-trustedgpg;
- <varlistentry><term><filename>/etc/apt/trustdb.gpg</filename></term>
- <listitem><para>Local trust database of archive keys.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term>&keyring-filename;</term>
- <listitem><para>Keyring of &keyring-distro; archive trusted keys.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term>&keyring-removed-filename;</term>
- <listitem><para>Keyring of &keyring-distro; archive removed trusted keys.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
</variablelist>
</refsect1>