Hi, On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:00:57AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> /dev/u?random translators are required for e.g. proper ssh and opengpg. > ATM hurd depends on random-egd, which poses problem since it depends on > a module which is provided by perl, which does not have the "required" > priority, and since perl depends on hurd too, we get a dependency loop > which leeds to immediat configuration issues. > > We've asked perl maintainers whether they could move the modules to > perl-base to avoid the issue, but that's of course not an easy thing to > ask. > > There are couple other solutions on > > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/random.html > > and notably Marcus' random translator, which does already work, and > avoids the perl dependency completely since it's pure C. It would also > avoid a separate daemon, which looks like a good thing to me. > > The advantage of egd is that it already has some rules to gather entropy > from e.g. vmstat, w, df, etc. But that could easily be added to Marcus' > random translator later. > > What do people think about it? Seems a bit strange to go for a solution that apparently will require extra effort to bring it to the same level, just to work around some packaging issues... I can't say though that I really care either way :-) > -Provides: makedev, login > -Replaces: makedev, login > -Conflicts: makedev, login > +Provides: makedev, login, random-egd > +Replaces: makedev, login, random-egd > +Conflicts: makedev, login, random-egd I'm not an expert on this stuff -- but isn't "provides" rather odd in this case?... > + if showtrans /dev/random 2> /dev/null | grep -q entropy.sock > + then > + # old random-egd translator, remove > + settrans -g /dev/random > + settrans -g /dev/urandom > + fi You probably want -gf here, or perhaps -go. -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
