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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello Michael, |
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> On 03/03/2012 02:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> The version of the rng-tools Debian package I'm using is |
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>> '2-unofficial-mt.14-1~60squeeze1'. Are the -T and -R parameters unique |
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>> to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date? |
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> Yes, version 2-unofficial-mt.14* is a Debian fork. Quoting from its |
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> README file: |
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> rng-tools, unofficial Debian fork |
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> ================================= |
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> NOTICE: |
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> This is an unofficial version of rng-tools with a lot of added |
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> functionality and bugs, for which I assume total blame. Don't bother |
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> rng-tools upstream with problems you find in this version of |
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> rng-tools. |
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> rng-tools unofficial-mt is a living reminder to myself to not modify |
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> upstream code without sending the changes upstream at every step. |
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> Suddenly, you have a mass of changes too big to send upstream, and |
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> yet you find yourself without the energy to break them into smallish |
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> patches to submit upstream (i.e. to "unfork"). |
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> [..] |
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> If you would rather use Debian's version in Gentoo, give |
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> sys-apps/rng-tools-2_p14 |
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> a try, which I have just added to overlay betagarden: |
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> # layman -a betagarden |
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> # emerge =sys-apps/rng-tools-2_p14 |
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> If you would like to see features from Debian's fork in rng-tools 3.x |
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> and beyond, please step up and help rng-tools' upstream integrate |
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> Debian's changes. |
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Thanks to all who replied...I haven't pursued rng-tools on gentoo as I |
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got a TRNG that's plugged into one of my Gentoo systems. |
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Meanwhile, I've been working on a package called etools, which may be |
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of interest and use to people who care about their system's entropy. |
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https://github.com/mikemol/etools |
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entwatch works and is useful now. |
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entbuff worked before I started putting stuff in git. When I've got it |
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working again, and once I've written manpages for it, the etools |
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package will be ready for a 1.0 release. |
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entmesh doesn't have a single line of code written yet, but it's going |
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to be the jewel of the thing, intended to help solve entropy |
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starvation issues in servers and virtual machines in environments |
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where a trusted external entropy source might be found. |
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