[ CCing debian-hurd ] Hi Joey,
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:08:55AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : 1-mb-random-data > Version : 1 > Upstream Author : entropy > * URL : /dev/urandom > * License : ? (may violate various licenses at random, though > probably won't) > Description : one megabyte of pseudo-random data > > I intend to dd if=/dev/urandom of=debian/tmp/usr/lib/1-mb-random-data > > I don't know what use this will be, but popularity-contest will tell us, > in time, if some users have found a use for it. If so, I may at a later > date package 2-mb-random-data, 1 gb-null-data, etc. The possibilities > are endless! Sounds interesting. There's no random translator yet integrated in the Hurd package, so it might be useful at least for the GNU/Hurd port. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)