On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > FS#30286 Inform the user that entropy is needed > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Wallace <[email protected]> > --- > scripts/pacman-key.sh.in | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in b/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in > index ae491d2..41498c6 100644 > --- a/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in > +++ b/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in > @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ generate_master_key() { > # Generate the master key, which will be in both pubring and secring > "${GPG_PACMAN[@]}" --gen-key --batch <<EOF > %echo Generating pacman keyring master key... > +%echo Please do something to help gather entropy
Doesn't gnupg itself print a message like this? I also agree that without some example of something to do, this message would still leave me scratching my head if I didn't know as much as I do about the Linux RNG. -Dan
