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On Mar 3, 2012 9:05 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:48:59 -0500 |
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> Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > So I've been making extensive use of rngd on one of my Debian servers, |
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> > and I wanted to make use of it on a couple of my Gentoo boxes. Only to |
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> > find out that two parameters I need, -T and -R, aren't available, even |
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> > when I unmask version '3' in portage. Even the manpage contains |
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> > 'FIXME' where the Debian manpage contains much more information. |
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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 to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date?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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> You should download the .deb and see if it contains custom patches |
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> (rather likely actually). If you want those patches applied, stick them |
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> in /etc/portage/patches/ in the proper place. |
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> I can never remember how all that stuff works, I have to Google it each |
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> time :-) Start here if you haven't heard of user-custom patch |
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> support in portage yet: |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-791464.html |
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http://klaig.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-apply-user-patches-in-portage.html |
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Remember that it depends on whether the ebuild for the package support user |
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patches or not. |
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Rgds, |
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