[arch-general] Time for new release?

David Benfell benfell at parts-unknown.org
Sun Jun 17 17:48:59 EDT 2012


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On 06/17/12 14:07, Dennis Herbrich wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:00:27PM +0200, Geoffroy PLANQUART
> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> Good point, I though about this one too, but what about automatic
>> `pacman-key --init' at install time? This would solve the problem
>> no?
> 
> Sort of. That will leave the issue of waiting for enough entropy to
> be generated, which can be countered on a VM by running a command
> generating disk I/O in parallel until the key generation is
> finished. Otherwise you'll get complaints of "hanging" installers.
> 
If you ran the pacman-key --init near the beginning of the
installation, would the disk activity produced by installing the
packages not create the needed entropy? (Obviously, I'm assuming that
this can be run from the installation medium before pacman, et al, are
actually installed.)

- -- 
David Benfell
benfell at parts-unknown.org


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