From 25482883902ca2edb58272ba9a31339a46692f85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charlie O'Keefe Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:25:52 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Describe how GPG_KEY_NAME/gpg_key_name is used Might want to just rename these variables to SIGNER/signer --- README.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 667dc34..d8ca624 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -406,8 +406,9 @@ Update your `GPG_KEY_ID` and `GPG_KEY_NAME` variables in `.env` as follows: `3F14A629C06FA31D59C64FE93F0C2117D53A4A49`. Some versions of gpg may truncate this value, e.g. to 8 or 16 characters. You should be able to use the truncated value. -- `GPG_KEY_NAME`: the part before the @ symbol of the associated email address. In our example -this is `hpotter`. +- `GPG_KEY_NAME`: This is passed as the '--signer' argument to Gitian, and used as the name of a +directory for your signatures in our `gitian.sigs` repository. We suggest using the username portion +of the email address associated with your GPG key. In our example this is `hpotter`. ## Provision a virtual machine