On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote:
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.
Here's JBJ's original announcement about the feature, examples of the performance hit it causes and how to disable it:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2004-November/000146.html - Panu -