[clug] Re-signing Debian Packages

[Jevan Pipitone]

According to the link below, the private key does not expire, only the 
public key expires, and the public key should be able to have its expiry 
date updated?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/177291/how-to-renew-an-expired-keypair-with-gpg

Quote from the above URL:

"Basically, there should be no need to create a new keypair: if you 
still have the old one, you can "extend" its lifetime by changing expiry 
date and publishing updated key. This is completely normal and expected."

I would assume it is a private/public key pair, rather than just a 
single key for both encryption and decryption.

I don't know whether the above URL might help?

Jevan.



On 12/1/23 14:21, jm via linux wrote:
> The key, excuse the pun, bit in both of those is that it is your key 
> which you are updating. Not realising this yesterday I tried the 
> directions in the first link you provide and ran into it complaining I 
> didn't have the secret key.
>
> Jeff.
>
> On 12/1/23 12:26, Jevan Pipitone via linux wrote:
>> I don't know whether either of these links might help?
>>
>> https://linux-audit.com/how-to-solve-an-expired-key-keyexpired-with-apt/
>>
>> https://makandracards.com/makandra-orga/13644-what-to-do-when-your-gpg-pgp-key-expires 
>>
>>
>> It seems you might be able to update the key, using "apt-key".
>>
>> I had a problem like this in the past, which I eventually had to 
>> reinstall my whole debian with the latest version, because the whole 
>> update wasn't working anymore on the older version, due to some 
>> mistakes I'd made when installing software. For this reason I 
>> document (in .txt files) every change I make to the system, so that 
>> if I have to redo it, and can then I can reinstall the latest debian, 
>> and redo all of the changes.
>>
>> Jevan.
>
>
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