[fionn@unix-ag.org: Bug#181298: gpa: Any action that involves gnupg freezes gpa (straceincluded)]

[Miguel Coca]

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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 20:34:35 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
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> Subject: Bug#181298: gpa: Any action that involves gnupg freezes gpa (str=
aceincluded)
> From: Fionn Behrens <fionn@unix-ag.org>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:34:54 +0100
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> Package: gpa
> Version: 0.6.1-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
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> Subject basically says it, gpa is unusable atm because any gnupg action
> makes it stop in the tracks. Below you see an example of what I mean in
> the form of an strace snippet. I tried to change owner trust on a key.

This is not a bug. After any operation that might affect the web of
trust (changing the owner trust, signing keys, importing new keys,
etc..) gpg rebuilds the trustdb. This can be a time consuming
operation if there are many keys in the keyring.

You can force a trustdb rebuilding with "gpg --check-trustdb". If gpa
hangs for much longer that the time that takes, you might have found a
bug. Otherwise, it's perfectly normal.

These operations can be sped up by running "gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches".
This creates the signature caches, and should only be needed if the
keyring was used before GnuPG 1.0.7 (as later versions should keep it
updated automatically).

Regards,
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Miguel Coca (mcoca@gnu.org)                http://zipi.fi.upm.es/~e970095/
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