Weird error after moving .gnupg to new machine

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:50:44PM +0100, Chris Howells wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've attempted to migrate my gpg keyring from an old machine to a new machine 
> by simply copying the .gnupg directory from the old to new machine.  However, 
> this does not appear to work:
> 
> gpchris@gandalf:~$ gpg --list-keys
> gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=00)
> gpg: read_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
> gpg: enum_keyblocks(read) failed: invalid keyring
> 
> What does this mean? Is there a better way to migrate the stuff over to the 
> new machine?

It means the new machine is running an older version of GnuPG than the
old machine.  You need to run at least 1.0.7 on the new machine.

David

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