Re: [Cooker] Strange RPM problem with keyserver

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:11:30PM +0200, Pixel wrote:
> Claudio Matsuoka <claudio@mandriva.com> writes:
> 
> > Just after upgrading to Cooker from 2005LE, package installation started
> > to take forever to complete. Andreas tracked the problem and it turned out
> > that rpm was trying to contact a keyserver at mit.edu and, for some reason,
> > it was failing and blocking execution.
> 
> as for me, i was having a look today at a conectiva package, and it
> was slow. I noticed --nosignature was much faster. I just tried
> strace:
> 
> % strace rpm -qpl ash-0.3.8-56995cl.i386.rpm 
> ...
> connect(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(11371), sin_addr=inet_addr("18.7.14.139")}, 16) = 0
> send(6, "GET /pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x"..., 177, 0) = 177
> ...

This has to stop. We can't have rpm automatically downloading a key.
This has to be the user's decision.