Lars wrote: > Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> 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 - >> > > thanks. > fired up ethereal, and it looks like its really getting gpg data from a > server named cryptonomicon.mit.edu. > > best > lars > > imported a missing planetccrma gpg-key for the audio packages i had installed, and no net-traffic anymore! time rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 openoffice.org2-writer-1.9.77-1 openoffice.org2-core-1.9.77-1 real 0m0.984s user 0m0.841s sys 0m0.062s btw. the auto gpg-key lookup in rpm is a really cool thing! thanks! lars