[GNUnet-developers] newbie Q: connecting ..

[Jean Jordaan]

Hi all

(Apologies if this belongs on a user-.. list, please refer me if so.)

I'm trying to test drive gnunet, and two things are puzzling me. One:
starting 'gnunet -d' repeats this over and over, with now and again a
"HELO: broadcast pointless: no hosts known" message:

public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=19171)
.public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=48225)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=21848)
.public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=40223)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=6445)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=29161)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=20648)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=59961)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=60650)
.public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=10798)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=41276)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=16016)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=18314)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=3052)
.public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=59562)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=11470)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=35921)
public2Hostkey: received invalid publicKey (size=60826)

Two: according to Gentoo Linux, the distro I use, the newest
version of gnunet seems to have some huge dependencies (like
qt, tetex and postgresql). Is this just Gentoo being overeager?

address@hidden jean $ USE= emerge -p gnunet

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N   ] net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r1
[ebuild  N   ] app-text/tetex-2.0.2
[ebuild  N   ] dev-db/postgresql-7.3.3
[ebuild  N   ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4
[ebuild  N   ] app-doc/qt-docs-3.1.2
[ebuild  N   ] x11-libs/qt-3.1.2-r3
[ebuild  N   ] app-doc/doxygen-1.3
[ebuild    U ] dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 [1.6.3]
[ebuild  N   ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.76-r2
[ebuild  N   ] app-arch/rpm-4.2_pre069
[ebuild    U ] dev-libs/libextractor-0.2.2 [0.1.0]
[ebuild    U ] net-p2p/gnunet-0.5.2a [0.4.6]

Regards,
Jean Jordaan
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