Large keyrings, GnuPG slowdowns/Seahorse segfaults

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:46:46 +0200, Ingo Klöcker said:

> I doubt that a post-install script would be applied to the keyrings of 
> all users. Especially when the users' home directories are on an NFS 
> mounted device. In this case often root can't access these directories 

So the script should send an announcemnt to all users.  Afaiak, Debian
does this in some cases.

> Wouldn't it be possible to run this command automatically when the users 
> run GnuPG 1.0.7 for the first time? Many people are compiling GnuPG 

Some won't like it and it is not really required.

> Also adding a corresponding item to the FAQ ("Q: Why is gpg so slow? A: 
> You did run gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches after updating from GnuPG 1.0.6 

That is a good idea.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner