On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> wrote:
FS#30286 Inform the user that entropy is needed
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> --- 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