FEDORA-REMOVE-OLD-GPG-KEYS(8)

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version 45.1 · 4 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 FEDORA-REMOVE-OLD-GPG-KEYS 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're talking about fedora-remove-old-gpg-keys — that's the manual page name, and yes, this whole thing lives in section 8 of the manual (the sysadmin-y part, not the "how do I use ls" part). it's a tiny little script with one job and it does that job. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

fedora-remove-old-gpg-keys — the tool that removes old RPM GPG keys 🗝️💅

like. it takes your old, expired, out-of-date GPG keys and it removes them. that's the whole vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fedora-remove-old-gpg-keys

that's it. no flags, no arguments, no options, nothing to memorise. you just run it. iconic behaviour honestly 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the script fedora-remove-old-gpg-keys goes into your rpmdb (that's the RPM database, the place where rpm keeps all its little secrets) and it removes the GPG keys of EOLed Fedora Linuxes. 💀

EOL = end of life. those Fedora releases that are no longer getting updates, no longer getting love, no longer the main character. their GPG keys are just sitting there in your rpmdb collecting dust, and this script is like "not on my watch" and sweeps them out. 🧹✨

so if you've been upgrading Fedora over and over (and over) and your keyring is giving clutter-era, this is your girl. she empties the old ones out. slay. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • rpm(8) — the big one, the whole reason rpmdb exists 💖
  • fedora-upgrade(8) — the other one in this little family, for when you're levelling up your Fedora ✨

😭 BUGS 😭

if something goes wrong — like, actually wrong, not just "hmm this is weird" — please report it at:

https://github.com/xsuchy/fedora-upgrade/issues

don't just suffer in silence, bestie. tell the maintainer. that's how things get fixed. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com> 💜

so yeah. one script, one job, cleans the EOL keys out of your rpmdb, and it slays. FEDORA-REMOVE-OLD() is the manual-page-flavoured name it goes by up in the header and down in the footer, and that's the whole story. mwah. 💅🎀

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