Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Inform the user to generate entropy

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:50:45AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Wallace wrote:

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FS#30286 Inform the user that entropy is needed

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wallace --- 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 <

Doesn't gnupg itself print a message like this?

It does, but not in --batch mode.

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