Re: gpg: checking the trustdb

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> ii  gnupg          1.2.0-1        GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement.
>
> It happens very often that GPG decides to check the trustdb. When it's
> *f-i-n-a-l-l-y* done (takes like 10 minutes or so), it says that the
> next check is scheduled for e.g. 31-12-2002:
>
> gpg: checking the trustdb
> [...]
> gpg: next trustdb check due at 2002-12-31
>
> And then, the next day, or half a week later, it does it all over
> again? Is it lying?

I think gpg tries to implicitly figure out when the trustdb needs to be
checked by default (though I'm not sure what triggers it).  Try using
the option --no-auto-check-trustdb.

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