avoid triggering gpg2 migration in apt-key

The presents (even of an empty) secring.gpg is indication enough for
gpg2 to tigger the migration code which not only produces a bunch of
output on each apt-key call, but also takes a while to complete as an
agent needs to be started and all that.

We workaround the first part by forcing the migration to happen always
in a call we forced into silence, but that leaves us with an agent to
start all the time – with a bit of reordering we can make it so that we
do not explicitly create the secring, but let gpg create it if needed,
which prevents the migration from being triggered and we have at least a
bit less of a need for an agent. Changes - even to public only keyrings
- still require one, but such actions are infrequent in comparison to
verification calls, so that should be a net improvement.

diff --git a/cmdline/apt-key.in b/cmdline/apt-key.in
index 4d1079a4bd15d427a7ad6d1c894f7f15da70db29..80eee6265bf194ba15faa4532a90383b0e0db5d0 100644 (file)
--- a/cmdline/apt-key.in
+++ b/cmdline/apt-key.in
@@ -506,38 +506,38 @@ prepare_gpg_home() {
 
     create_gpg_home
 
-    # We don't use a secret keyring, of course, but gpg panics and
-    # implodes if there isn't one available - and writeable for imports
-    SECRETKEYRING="${GPGHOMEDIR}/secring.gpg"
-    touch "$SECRETKEYRING"
-
     # create the trustdb with an (empty) dummy keyring
     # older gpgs required it, newer gpgs even warn that it isn't needed,
     # but require it nonetheless for some commands, so we just play safe
     # here for the foreseeable future and create a dummy one
+    touch "${GPGHOMEDIR}/empty.gpg"
     if ! "$GPG_EXE" --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring \
-       --homedir "$GPGHOMEDIR" --quiet --check-trustdb --keyring "$SECRETKEYRING" >"${GPGHOMEDIR}/gpgoutput.log" 2>&1; then
+       --homedir "$GPGHOMEDIR" --quiet --check-trustdb --keyring "${GPGHOMEDIR}/empty.gpg" >"${GPGHOMEDIR}/gpgoutput.log" 2>&1; then
        cat >&2 "${GPGHOMEDIR}/gpgoutput.log"
        false
     fi
-    # tell gpg that it shouldn't try to maintain a trustdb file
+
+    # now tell gpg that it shouldn't try to maintain this trustdb file
     echo "#!/bin/sh
 exec '$(escape_shell "${GPG_EXE}")' --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring \\
 --homedir '$(escape_shell "${GPGHOMEDIR}")' --no-auto-check-trustdb --trust-model always \"\$@\"" > "${GPGHOMEDIR}/gpg.0.sh"
     GPG_SH="${GPGHOMEDIR}/gpg.0.sh"
     GPG="$GPG_SH"
 
+    # We don't usually need a secret keyring, of course, but
     # for advanced operations, we might really need a secret keyring after all
     if [ -n "$FORCED_SECRET_KEYRING" ] && [ -r "$FORCED_SECRET_KEYRING" ]; then
-       rm -f "$SECRETKEYRING"
-       cp -a "$FORCED_SECRET_KEYRING" "$SECRETKEYRING"
+       if ! aptkey_execute "$GPG" -v --batch --import "$FORCED_SECRET_KEYRING" >"${GPGHOMEDIR}/gpgoutput.log" 2>&1; then
+           cat >&2 "${GPGHOMEDIR}/gpgoutput.log"
+           false
+       fi
+    else
+       # and then, there are older versions of gpg which panic and implode
+       # if there isn't one available - and writeable for imports
+       # and even if not output is littered with the creation of a secring,
+       # so lets call import once to have it create what it wants in silence
+       echo -n | aptkey_execute "$GPG" --batch --import >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
     fi
-
-    # older gpg versions need a secring file, but newer versions take it as
-    # a hint to start a migration from earlier versions. The file is empty
-    # anyhow, so nothing actually happens, but its three lines of output
-    # nobody expects to see in apt-key context, so trigger it in silence
-    echo -n | aptkey_execute "$GPG" --batch --import >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 }
 
 if [ "$command" != 'help' ] && [ "$command" != 'verify' ]; then