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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> Now, this is interesting.
>
> If I just run 'time rpm -qa' then about 15 files appear and then this
> file appears
>
> gpg-pubkey-1cddbca9-3f9da14c
>
> after this, the output stops for quite a while (with no real activity on
> the CPU) then lots of output and then another stop after
>
> gpg-pubkey-db42a60e-37ea5438
> gpg-pubkey-30c9ecf8-3f9da3f7
>
> quite a pause in proceeding, again with no notable CPU usage) and then
> lots more files (the sort of output I would expect from rpm -qa) and
> then it finishes.

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.

 	- Panu -