Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Tue Feb 15 12:02:53 UTC 2005


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 -




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