At Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:46:36 +0000, "Thomas Mueller" <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1 > > Does there look to be a fix in the entropy bug? > > This bug relates to entropy and how it impedes building many packages > in pkgsrc. > > I seemed to get around this bug on one computer but not the other.
I have fixes that restore the previous option to use "untrusted"
hardware as an entropy source. They may need some updating to be truly
complete in the most recent -current, as I'm still back at 9.99.81.
However I've little hope that my patches will be accepted back into the
main source tree, since there seems to be some crazy un-bendable
insistence on perfect security of all randomness, even for private
machines, embedded systems, and so on.
> Other bug is longer-standing and plagued me in NetBSD 8.99.51 and
> again in 9.99.82.
>
> Do there look to be improvements in how NetBSD handles hard drives
> that would be affected by that bug?
>
> That bug causes device timeouts on some types of hard drive but not
> all.
I can't imagine how the entropy issues could be related in any way to
disk device driver timeouts.
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