On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:48:59 -0500 Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I've been making extensive use of rngd on one of my Debian servers, > and I wanted to make use of it on a couple of my Gentoo boxes. Only to > find out that two parameters I need, -T and -R, aren't available, even > when I unmask version '3' in portage. Even the manpage contains > 'FIXME' where the Debian manpage contains much more information. > > The version of the rng-tools Debian package I'm using is > '2-unofficial-mt.14-1~60squeeze1'. Are the -T and -R parameters unique > to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date? > You should download the .deb and see if it contains custom patches (rather likely actually). If you want those patches applied, stick them in /etc/portage/patches/ in the proper place. I can never remember how all that stuff works, I have to Google it each time :-) Start here if you haven't heard of user-custom patch support in portage yet: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-791464.html http://klaig.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-apply-user-patches-in-portage.html -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
