[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#833640: Bug#833640: Bug#833640: gpg --recv-keys: does something for 5 minutes without any information

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:58, ansgar at debian.org said:

> all signatures, fine, but just importing a key shouldn't cause gpg to
> recheck *all* signatures if that takes this long: checking the
> signatures of the newly imported key is enough.

With each new key the web of trust needs to be recomputed and in this
process signatures of all keys are usually checked.  A few keys with
insane long key lengths signing many of your keys might be the reason 
for the delays.

>> process.   (when you do, you can just run "gpg --check-trustdb")
>
> I think I'll try this.

I would really suggest that along with a crontab entry like:

30   1 * * *   /usr/local/bin/gpg --batch --check-trustdb 2>/dev/null


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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