Create GPG key fails

[chriscroome]

On a Debian Stretch server the create key task fails with:

gpg: agent_genkey failed: Timeout

This appears because this command:

gpg2 --batch --gen-key ${HOME}/gpg2_gen_key

Prompts for a passphrase, even setting it to nothing still prompts for one:

gpg2 --batch --gen-key --passphrase "" ${HOME}/gpg2_gen_key

Also the secret key is not written to $HOME/key.sec ... so this all needs fixing... I'll see what I can do later...

Also this might be worth noting:

DSA allows a key size up to 1024 bits.

[timblaktu]

@chriscroome where'd you end up on this? Did you abandon using this role? I'm considering using it, but don't want to bother if it simply doesn't work right now. I've spent several days trying to get 2 other aptly roles working and they all had significant problems:

• Publish repositories fails bc gpg key creation and key ids aren't tracked correctly idealista/aptly-role#7
• aptly role getting "ERROR: mkdir $HOME: permission denied" in aptly calls in tasks/repositories.yml manala/ansible-roles#481
  ** aptly repo CLI fails when run with su aptly -c: ERROR: mkdir $HOME: permission denied aptly-dev/aptly#930

I'd be curious if you ever found an aptly role that works.

[chriscroome]

There is a fork here with some updates but think I gave up and ended up using reprepo.