From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: Once a keyring is modified by gnupg 1.0.7, versions of gpg included with earlier distros can no longer read it. When attempting a --list-keys on a 1.0.7 maintained pubring with an older version of gnupg, packet errors are generated. See below for more. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. modify an exisintg public keyring from psyche 2. attempt to list keys in that keyring on valhalla (7.3) 3. See the following error : gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=03) gpg: read_keyblock: read error: invalid packet gpg: enum_keyblocks(read) failed: invalid keyring Actual Results: This error happens on all available prior versions of GPG I have to test - 1.0.6-0.6.x (from RHL 6.2) and 1.0.6-5 (from RHL 7.3). Expected Results: I should see a list of keys, and I don't. Additional info: Backporting 1.0.7 (from psyche) to 6.2 and 7.3 fixed the errors. in order to compile on 6.x, LDAP had to be disabled in the .spec file.
addendum for completeness : also fails on AS 2.1 gnupg 1.0.6-3 (but that's not a surprise)
Closing, since this is a GPG "feature" and not something Red Hat can fix.