On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
Now, this is interesting. If I just run 'time rpm -qa' then about 15 files appear and then this file appears gpg-pubkey-1cddbca9-3f9da14c after this, the output stops for quite a while (with no real activity on the CPU) then lots of output and then another stop after gpg-pubkey-db42a60e-37ea5438 gpg-pubkey-30c9ecf8-3f9da3f7 quite a pause in proceeding, again with no notable CPU usage) and then lots more files (the sort of output I would expect from rpm -qa) and then it finishes.
Ahhah... This most likely has to do with rpm 4.4's automatic gpg key retrieval feature - I bet it's accessing network at that point and timing out because firewalls or such.
- Panu -