gpg --refresh with large keyrings and hkps in 2.1.1

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 12/17/2014 04:34 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:58, kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
> said:
> 
>> Hmm, now that I'm back on my home network it seems to fully complete
>> refresh to hkps pool. Perhaps a network issue from my last location
> 
> But it shows that we need better error messages shown directly by gpg
> and not maybe somewhere in the dirmngr log.  Will for sure safe us time
> while helping users.

Agreed.  It seems like "gpg --refresh" should also handle errors more
gracefully.  If there is a persistent failure at a given key, maybe it
should restart the batched refresh after that failed fetch or something?
 I'm not sure what the right behavior would be, though.

perhaps a "gpg --refresh" could select keys in a randomized order so
that a manual restart wouldn't always get stuck in the same place?  (of
course, that would make reproducing bugs related to key fetch order
pretty frustrating)

	--dkg

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