[arch-dev-public] adding rng-tools to extra?

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am 04.06.2012 02:22, schrieb Gaetan Bisson:
> [2012-06-03 20:48:21 +0200] Tobias Powalowski:
>> with enabling pacman signing, shouldn't we add the rng-tools to extra to
>> be able to use it on install media too?
> For interactive installers, it seems to me like a better solution to
> simply ask the user to provide true entropy through typing random stuff
> on their keyboards - shouldn't take more than twenty seconds or so.
>
> For virtual machines, I use the stupid code attached to transfer entropy
> from the host to the guest.
>
> I don't know rng-tools but if it better answers either problem it would
> indeed be nice to have it in [extra].
>
As far as i can remember I needed more time with the keyboard, well i'll
test a bit in the install environment.

greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org


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