Adding the Arch Assault repo to pacman.conf

After getting gpg related errors when trying to add the Arch Assault repository to my pacman.conf i came upon this solution.

the error message read:

gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr

So it was a missing directory. And a gpg directory non the less.

Searching the mighty interwebs i came upon a gpg mailing list mentioning bug in which the dirmngr was not being created for the root user in the arch linux architecture for obvious reasons.

But there seems to be conflicting arguments whether the bug is related to gpg or to arch linux itself, since that the root user in arch should not have to have a .gnupg dir, but never the less needs one for certain operations.

So. As root create the directory:

dirmngr </dev/null

Afterwards, still as root. You can now add the repo to pacman.conf and the arch assault keys with --noconfirm (safe right?):

echo "[archassault]" >> /etc/pacman.conf && \ echo "Server = http://repo.archassault.org/archassault/\$repo/os/\$arch" >> /etc/pacman.conf && \ pacman-key -r CC1D2606 && \ pacman-key --lsign CC1D2606 && \ pacman -Sy --noconfirm archassault-keyring archassault-mirrorlist